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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: MR GABRIEL ZOURE <mrgabriel_zoure0@sify.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:41:28 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP FOR THIS TRANSFER ($10M u.s.d)








Dear Friend,

 
Thanks you for reading my mail and I am contacting you concerning a
customer and an abandoned huge amount of money placed under our banks management
years ago, I contacted you independently of my investigation and no one is
informed of this communication and I would like to intimate you with certain
facts that I believe would be of interest to you and me and the family in
future.

My name is Mr Gabriel Zoure, I am in the Auditing and Accounting
Manager with Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.In my department i
discovered an abandoned sum of (US$10M 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. 
 
There
is no person that is coming for the money that i why i am contacting you to
stand for the claim of the money into your bank account. By all means you will
be acting like his business partner to make claim of the money to your bank
account, i promise you that i will direct you on how this transfer will go
successfully if only you can abide to my instruction.
 
And after then
will 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.)Your full
name...
(2)Your address...
(3)Your country..
(4) Your age...

(5)Your occupation.......
(6)Your Private Phone number,
 
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,
 

My regards. 
 
Mr Gabriel Zoure.



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