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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: "sule usman" <sule_usman101@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:04:45 +0000
Subject: The details urgent.

Dear friend,

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.

For your information,I got your email address from my computer,when I am
looking for a reliable foreign person I will do this business with though I
did not know much of you.I strongly beleive that we will work together as
partners and get this fund transfered into your designated account
peacefully.

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.Meanwhile,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 this business,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 Marital Status : ?
3)Your occupation.
4) Your Telephone line and fax.

5) 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.

Meanwhile,find below my personal data's.

My full name:Mr.Adams Ahmed
My position in the bank: Aud/Acc Manager F.R.D.
My age :19/09/1960
My residence home address: Anenue Kwame Kruma 2549-Ouaga-01
Ouadougou,Burkina-Faso West Africa .
My Direct Telephone : +226:76036613
I married with one wife and two kid's,one boy 17 years,and one girl 14
years.

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 the fund and establish some of my share on a
good business in your country on your behalf as an indigin, I want you to
open your mind and transact this great opportunity with me, we all smile at
the end and for the betterment of our future together with our family.

After hearing from you, I will furnish you an application form which you
fill correctly and send to the bank for the process.

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.


Expecting to hear from you sonnest.


Regard's

Dr.Sule Usman.
Tel:00226 76036613.

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