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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: miss_maritana1@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:48:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello,




Hello,

Compliment of the season and how are you doing today,we hope you are
alright.Excuse US for bothering you with our email but
bear with us that this is the only way for us get in touch with you since
we have not met each other face to face.
My name is Miss Maritana Tagro and my younger brother is prince Koyani
Tagro , we are the children of the former Minister of
interior within the regime of former President Mr Laurent Gbagbo or
federal republic of cote d'ivoire.

As you may like to know, our father was shot in the mouth on the 12th of
April 2011 during the arrest of Mr.Laurent Gbagbo
the formal president of cote d'ivoire and he later died at PISAM of cocody.
Before his death, he deposited the sum of $2,650,000.00 in one commercial
bank and he also deposited this fund with the name
of my younger brother with a "CLAUSE" that my younger brother will have
access of this fund when he reach the age of 23 years
and now he is dead we can not wait for more 6 years since my younger
brother is still 17 years.


Since after the death of our parents we are passing through difficulties
and it was base on that reason that we contacted you
for you to help us with your experience and personality to get this fund
release from this bank and also transfer to your own
personal account.

We want you also to know that there is nothing to be afraid in this
transaction because we have all the relevant documents
that covers the existance of this fund in that bank.All we need from you
is transperancy and truthfullness and we promise you
that you can never regret assisting us.
Thank you for your understanding,

Yours indeed,

Miss Maritana & Koyani Tagro

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