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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: "ibrahim rashid" <ib-rashid9@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ibrad0020@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:04:42 +0000
Subject: URGENT PLEASE

>From The Office of Mr Ibrahim Rashid
Director Audit and Account dept.
African development bank (ADB)
West Africa.
Tel +226 78 84 78 89


transfer of ($ 25,200.000.00) twenty five million, two hundred
thousand dollars

I am mr Ibrahim Rashid, the auditor general of african development bank here
in burkina faso. during the course of our auditing, i discovered a floating
fund in an account opened in the bank by mr john korovo, after going
through some old files in the records i discovered that the owner of the
account died in the (Beirut-bound charter jet) plane crash on the 25th
december 2003 in cotonou (republic of Benin).

here is
the(website=http://www.cnn.com/2003/world/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html).

and since then nobody has operated on this account again,

the owner of this account is mr john korovo a foreigner, and a trader who
trade on gold and mining and he died, since 2003 and no other person knows
about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that mr john
korovo die along with his entire family.

the amount involved is ($ 25.2 m) twenty-five million, two hundred thousand
united states dollars only , i am only contacting you as a foreigner because
this money can not be approved to a local person here, with valid
international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner
with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign account
because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account mr
john korovo is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a
foreign account.

i need your strong assurance that you will never, never cheat me as soon as
this fund hit into your account. with my influence and the position of the
bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account
which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending
our physical arrival in your country for sharing. the bank official will
prove all documents of transaction immediately for you to receive this fund
leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence.

i will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately i hear from you that
you are ready receive this fund in your account .at the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,
while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the
process of transferring.

please if you are interested forward to me your;

full name:
sex:
company: if any
full contact address:
phone:
cell:
fax:
city:
state:
zip code
country:
occupation:
age
yours truly
MR IBRAHIM.

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