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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: "zekmo hamed" <zekmohamed008@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: zekmohamed@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:42:19 +0000
Subject: waiting for your reply

urgent reply needed.
Dear Friend,

I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise.Iam the bill and
exchange manager in Bank of Africa.I Hoped that you will not expose or
betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the
mutual benefit of our both families.

We need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $11.3million
immediately to your account.The money has been dormant for years in our Bank
here without any body coming for it.
We want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased
customer(the owner of the account)who died a long with his supposed next of
kin in an air crash since July 2000.

We don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund.So
this is the reason why i contacted you,so that we will can release the money
to you as the nearest person to the deceased cutomer.

Please we would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if
you are not interested.
Upon receipt of your reply,i will send you full details on how the business
will be executed and also note that you will have 25% of the above mentioned
sum if you agree to transact the business with us.

Zekmo hamed

Bank Of Africa,Burkina Faso-West Africa.

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