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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: ibra_ mus_001 <ibra_mus_001@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:48:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Detail,awaiting to hear from you soonest.


Dear Suzie,

Nice to hear from you ,how are you and your family ? I hope all is fine.

I received your mail and l'm so much impressed after reading your mail and will like to let you know that,l am very sincere with you considering your kindness been a responsible person,there is no doubt about your eligibility as the legal next of kin to our deceased customer and owner of the account number BF108894, with the following reasons: (A) Before the death of our deceased customer his true next of kin was not indicated to the board of directors of the bank, because of the top secrecy and confidentiality of the transactions which our late customer transacted with the various governments in West Africa. (B) Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the bank, it is therefore impossible for the board of directors of the bank to verify the next of kin as well as the true heritor of the fund.

Mere looking at the whole transfer process it might look so difficult to achieve a sucessful result but I tell you,there will not be any risk or problem,after this fund is being transfered into your account,i will delete all the files concerning the deceased cutsomer in our bank.

When this fund is transfered,there will be some cover up document's that my bank will issue you to show your bank that this fund is legally acquired.I tend to invest some part of this fund in hotel business and also import some agricultural machine's back to Burkina-faso which I will use to set up mechanised farming.

We can join together to set up all this investment if you wish but if it is not ok by you then you have to collect your own share and do any thing you want to do with it.

Note: that the fund will be term as unclaim very soon,so we must hasten up in whatsoever we are going to do about it before it is forfeited as unclaim bill and sent to the bank treasury.Mean while,i will advice you to try and keep this as confidential as possible,because nobody loves successful person,so that our chances should not be in vain.

Therefore,before we start,I would like you to assure me of your capability of handling this transfer with trust by giving me the following informations about yourself:

1) Your Age: ?
2) Your Tel/ Fax Line's ; ?
3) Your Marital Status: ?
4) l will appreciate if you can send me your photograph,for further building of trust, more so to identify you when i come over to your country to collect my own share of the fund at the end of this transaction.

If you would be capable to handle this faithful and sincere,I will like to hear from you soonest so that I can obtain an application of claim from the bank and forward it for you to fill and submit it back to our bank,for approval to transfer those fund.

I trust you with my mind although we have not meet before and this transaction will not take more than (7) bank working days before the fund is transfered to your account and it is then I will travel down to meet you in your country for the sharing of those fund and also for investment of my own share.

Thanks and regard's to your family,success is ours,we shall succeed to an adage which say's failure is for those that accept it,but since we have faith and believe in Almighty God,success will surely be ours.

Here is my number (+226:76.46.96.26).


Expecting to hear from you sonnest.


Mr.Ibrahim.


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