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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: "wallace akin dada" <wad_28@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:42:20 +0000
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED.

FROM THE DESK OF Dr Wallace A.Ada
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.



Dear,
How are you,first i will explain my self little to you before we
continue.Iam the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
departmentof THE BANK of Africa(BOA)I am writing to seek your interest over
a transaction.Inmy department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15.5m US
dollars .

In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died alongwith
his entire family in 2003 in a plane crash. Since we got information about
his death, we have been expecting his next 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 now 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 we dont want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after six years, the money will be transferred 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.

We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me,

There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated. 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 the text 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 letter.
Trusting
to hear from you immediately.



Yours faithfully,
Dr Wallace Akin Dada

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