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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.Maryam Ken Tukur" <mrs_tukur53@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: mrsmaryamt@fastmail.com
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 18:25:50 +0000
Subject: Mrs.Maryam Ken Tukur



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Dear beloved one,

It is my joy and pleasure to write you after much consideration since
i
can not be able to see you face to face, at first.being the wife of late
Dr
Ken .B.TUKUR, from ZULU in republic of SOUTH AFRICA (S.A) I am Mrs
MARYAM
KEN TUKUR and my husband was a prominent cocoa and Gold merchant in
South-Africa.

Before his death after his business trip to Abidjan-Coted'Ivoire
West-Africa to negotiate on a cocoa business on 6th of February 2014 a
week
after he came back from Abidjan ,he was assassinated with my first son
by
unknown assassins which my son died instantly but my husband died two
week
after in the hospital , on that faithful afternoon I didn't know that my
husband was going to leave me after I lost my jovial and intelligent
son.

But before he gave up the ghost it was as if he knew he was going to die
.He KEN TUKUR my lovely husband ( may his soul rest in perfect peace )
he
disclosed to me that he deposited the sum of USD$ 10,000,000.00 million
dollars with a bank in Abidjan -Cote d'ivoire that the money was meant
for
his cocoa business he wanted to invest in Abidjan-Cote d'ivoire.

Though according to my husband he told me to take care of the money for
the
future sake of his other children , so he instructed me to seek for a
life
time investment abroad .

As a result of this assassination we cannot stay in South-Africa now .
I have succeeded in locating and confirming the existence of the fund in
Abidjan -Cote d'ivoire and also with most honesty and confidentiality. I
am
soliciting your assistance to help me on how to transfer this money from
the bank in Abidjan Cote d'ivoire to your bank account abroad so that we
will invest in a lucrative business in your country . you should
understand
that this fund is our only hope . I am waiting anxiously to hear from
you
so that we can discuss the modalities of this transaction.

Although I and my remaining Son Kevin Jr. have decided to give you a 15%
interest from the total sum of $10million . Please kindly contact me on
the
above email address (mrsmaryamt@fastmail.com) immediately for more
discussion .

Thank you and God bless You .
Best regards
Mrs.Maryam Ken Tukur.

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