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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: Adama Thombiano <adthombiano@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 22:43:43 +0200
Subject: VERY URGENT

Hello Dear,

I have a bank customer Sergent Monica Lin Brown a

member of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment

of the U.S. Army on patrol in Zharay district in

Kandahar province in Afghanistan,

During Last year Combat against the Taliban, she

intercepted some Luggage coming from Iran and

later discovered its Money US$19.3m which was

moved out of the country and deposited in our bank

treasury for safe keeping, The Funds $19.3m US

dollar bills was among the Boxes of Money brought

into Afghanistan under hidden circumstances by

powerful Drug/Oil merchants who were out to give

financial support to the Taliban against United

States Coalition Forces there in Kabul.
The customer/Sgt Monica Lin Brown, now deceased

and a victim of Afghan war/peace keeping.

I have therefore decided to transfer this fund out

from this bank into a private foreign account for

investment, Conclusively every arrangement to

transfer this fund into a foreign account for our

mutual benefit have been concluded since am the

personal account officer and have all the record

of the closing balance with me having considered

that nobody is aware of this fund except me and

the customer now deceased.

the money is already in our bank's miscellaneous

account facility and will be remitted to your

account upon receipt of your bank account

information.

be informed that this is a hitch free transaction,

your ability to consider this proposal worthwhile

for acceptance will make us achieve this great

deal smoothly. you will be entitled to 45% of

this fund and 50% for me while 5% will be set

aside for any sundry expenses that might occur

along the line.

kindly reply back for further details,
Sincerely
Mrs Adama Thombiano

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