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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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Fraud email example:

From: abdulmohammed2005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:27:15 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20REPLY=20NEEDED?=


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FROM THE DESK OF DR ABDULMOHAMMED
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
DEAR ,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK BURKINA FASO. I got your contact
address through internet when searching for a good and reliable person that
will assist me in this transaction.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 30.5m US Dollarsin an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died alongwith his
entire family in JULY 25 2000 IN A SUPER SONIC CONCORDE plane crash AT CHARLES
DE GAULLE AIRPORT IN PARIS FRANCE.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting hisnext
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I
decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you
as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and i don't want this money to
go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclamed after four year, the money will be transfered into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, inrespect
to the provision of a foreign account 10% will be set asidefor expenses
incured during the business and 60% would be for ME.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of
the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location
where in the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email thetext of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this mail massage
to en-able me send to you all the details nformation concerningthis transaction.waiting
for your urgent reply without any delay.

Your's faithfully

DR ABDULMOHAMMED
MOHAMMEDBILL AND
EXCHANGE MANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
NIB you can reply on my privateIDabdulmohammed2005@ yahoo.com





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