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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Mrs Tina Tagro <tina.tagro1@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: <mrs.tinatagro@ibibo.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:54:11 -0500
Subject: From: Madam Tina Tagro



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My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my
Son
David intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with
you
before but I believe one has to risk confiding before you can succeed
sometimes in life. Let me start by introducing myself to you, My Name
is
Mrs Tina Tagro the wife of late Mr. Desire Tagro, My Husband was one of
the
former President Laurent Gbagbo cabinet, but unfortunately he was
killed
during the crisis in our country last year.

I believed I can confide in you for the brighter future of my Son since
you
are a human being like me. There is this huge amount of Ten Million
five
hundred thousand United States dollars. ($10.500.000.00) which my late
Husband putted in a trunk box and deposited it with one private
security
company in Europe before the crisis, I and my Son are the only people
that
knows about this money, even the security company where my late Husband
deposited the money did not know the content of the box because he
deposited the box as family valuable not as money, Now I and my Son
have
decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough
for
security and political reasons.

We want you to help us claim and retrieve this fund from the Security
Company and transfer the money into your personal account in your
country
for investment purposes in these areas:

1). Telecommunication
2).The transport Industry
3). Five Star Hotel
4). Tourism
5). Real Estate

If you can be of assistance to us we will be pleased to offer you 20%
of
the total fund. We have all the documents that the security company
issued
my late Husband on the day he deposited the box, we will soon forward
these
documents to you which will help you to claim the box on our behalf. I
await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,
Mrs Tina Tagro and Son David Tagro
PLEASE DO REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE MAIL: mrs.tinatagro@ibibo.com

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