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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: ERIC TIGANA <erictigana02@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:50:21 +0000
Subject: URGENT

Greetings Dear Friend,
I am Mr Eric Tigana account manager with Unico Security and
Finance company
Conakry guinea, I am sorry for this interruption. I have no other way
to reach you than these ways, please
accept my apology. I was an account manager to one of our foreign late
clients’ Mr. Adraan Abbink a Dutch who died in a plane crash that
happened in Libya. Here is a link for your view:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/middleeast/13libya.html?_r1
message received on 02/12 at 08:17.
My client stated his wife as his next of kin, but unfortunately she
died also in the crash
This client was into Gold and Diamond mining business Africa.
It is my interest to contact you in respect of this our
client who opened account with our security and finance
company. It is with good spirit of heart I opened up this great
opportunity to you. After his death, I sent a routine notification to
his forwarding
address, but got no reply. He died without making any will. His draft
account opened in my finance company before his unfortunate death is
$026.500,000 Dollars and 207 kilos of gold as. it is now I want to present
you as the beneficiary of
the deceased. I will use my position and influence in our Security and
finance company to make sure they release this money to you for our
mutual sharing. If I wait for days and did not hear from you, this
project can be concluded before Christmas
Kindly get back to me for more details.
Warm Regards
Mr Eric Tigana

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