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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: "simon timothy" <simontimothy49@biz.by>
Reply-To: simontimothy2@voila.fr
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:26:11 +0200
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME URGENTLY.


FROM THE DESK OF MR. SIMON TIMOTHY.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.



TREAT URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL


Please Read confidentiality.


My name is Mr. Simon Timothy I am the auditing and accounting manager with
bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$27.2m dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from Florida, U.S.A) who died along
with his entire family on November 1999 in a plane crash. For more
information's about the crash you can visit this
site:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm


We shall share in ratio of 40% for you and 50% for me while 10% for expenses
Should you please contact me urgently so we can commence all arrangements
and I Will give you more information on how we would handle this project
successfully and also you will abide to my instruction .Please treat this
business with almost confidentiality and send me the Following:


(1.) Full names.
(2) Private telephone and fax
(3)Residential address
(4)Occupation
(5)Age and sex


I will send you my details of this transaction as soon as i hear from you
thanks, trusting to hear from you immediately with your contact
information's.


Trusting to hear from you immediately,


Yours faithfully


MR. SIMON TIMOTHY.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA. (BOA)

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