419 scam: Sambo Salifou <sambo_salifou@yahoo.com> Very urgent message for you

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- sambo.salifou2012@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Sambo Salifou <sambo_salifou@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Sambo Salifou <sambo.salifou2012@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:10:42 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Very urgent message for you

Dear Respected One.

Firstly, I apologize for sending you this sensitive information via
e-mail instead of a Certified mail / Post-mail. This is due to the
urgency and importance of the information. This project is based on
trust, confidentiality and sincerity, for the purpose in order to have
an acceptable meeting of the minds.

I am Sambo Salifou, the federal auditor. For central bank, and also
representing minor banks. After the last yearâ€™s audit in a bank here,
there were some irregularities, then I was invited concerning an
unclaimed fund,worth $10,000,000 which has neither probate certificate
nor clear profile, so I have made auditing research to seeing that
this fund has no edited probate certificate to prove its next of kin,
and the owner has been confirmed dead. I discover this information
from the old hard-disk of the bankâ€™s computer, so I have promised the
bank that I will discover the next of kin, as I am still making
research from the documents of the bankâ€™s computer.

I made this promised because I have the intention to search for a
partner who can bring his information, which I will fill in the
hard-disk of the computer and pass it to the bank, so that the bank,
will contact the person as the next of kin to come and claim the fund
of his late associate.
However, I have decided that who ever will be my partner to this claim
will take share of $4,000,000 and I will take $6,000,000 with
transparency and honest, if you are interesed I will require from the
following details:-

(1) Your name in full.
(2) Your full residential address.
(3) Your occupation.
(4) Your City.
(5) Your Country of origin.
(6) Your Mobile phone.
(7) Your age.
(8) Your marital status.

This is business transaction that requires someone with experience,
exposure and more than average means of livelihood. Please treat this
transaction as strictly confidential. Please if you are interested,
reply via ( sambo.salifou2012@gmail.com )and call me, then I will give you more information, the name and contact of the bank,
Sincerely,
Sambo Salifou ( +22677709123)

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