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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: ALI Tapsoba <tapsoba.ali@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:25:49 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Hello Good Friend, From Mr.Ali


Mr.Tapsoba Pascal Ali
Manager of Audit and Account Department,
African Development Bank {A.D.B}
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.
 
Dear Friend,
Please read carefully,
 
    I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account dept of our bank, with due respect i decided to contact you over this business financial transaction worth the sum of FIVE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($5.3MILLION USD) in other to entrust this fund into your bank account.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank customers who died along with his entire family on 31 JAN,2005 in a plane crash disaster. I was very fortune to meet the deceased file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2004-2005 in other to submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes. Following our banking financial policy, it was obviously indicated and signed law fully that if such money remains unclaimed after five years without somebody been a foreigner apply and claim the fund as the next of kin , the money will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed
fund.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the claim because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim the fund since the law does not permit an indigene to claim such fund Since the real beneficary of the fund is died , the bank are expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund.

Therefore I want you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank account details where our bank will transfer the fund into and immediately the fund is transferred into your account ,i will share the fund according to the percentage indicated below.
SIXTY PERCENT (60%) of the total fund will be for me.THIRTY PERCENT( 30%) for you in provision of the Bank account.FIVE PERCENT(5%) will be for unexpected expenses which may occur during the transfer.FIVE PERCENT(5%) will be preserved for helping the helpless people, like charity organization and motherless babies. Thereafter you will help me to visit your country for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated above. I will be expecting for your urgent reply as soon as you finish reading my letter to you or you can call me with my mobile number for more directives {+226-7871 6502}

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Tapsoba Pascal Ali



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