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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: kane dongo <kanedongo85@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <kanedongo1@myway.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:23:30 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF DR KANE DONGO(URGENT)








FROM THE DESK OF DR KANE DONGO BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B) OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA Dear... i need your attention, I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, OUAGADOUGOU .I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $7.5m US dollars (SEVEN MILLION AND FIVE HUNDRED THOUNSAND DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with 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 cannotrelease 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 his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .It is therefore uponthis discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin(We want to present you as his business associate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. you can visite the website http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained Unclaimed after five 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% ofthis 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 and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to thepercentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased customer. 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 toyour 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. I would want you to respond to my email immediately you read it for more details. Hoping to hear from you immediately. Yours faithfully, DR KANE DONGO
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