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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: Dr Frank Saidu <drfrank_saidu2009@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: drfranksaidu24@sify.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:39:36 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE



 Dear friend,


I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, I got
your  contact address from the computerized search. My name is  Dr Frank  Saidu.
I am the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of Africa Development Bank(ADB)
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum
of ten million four  hundred thousand United State of American dollars (10.4 MILLION USA DOLLARS ) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer Mr Kurt Kuhle from Alexandra Egypt who died along
with his family in  Siber airline that crashed into sea at Isreal on 4th October
2002.

Since I got information about his death I have been expecting his
next  of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it 
unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the  deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we  learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside  with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery
that I decided to make this  business proposal to you and release the money to
you as next of kin  or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement  since nobody is coming for it and I don't want the money to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

Am contacting you because our
deceased customer is a foreigner and a  Burkinabe can not stand as a next of kin
to foreigner customer.

The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund
should be transferred into the bank treasury after 8 years if nobody is coming
for the claim.

I have agreed that 33% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner in respect to the provision of your account for the transfer, 
2% will be set aside for expenses that might occurred during the  business and
65% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentagesindicated.

Please I would like you to keep
this transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I
am a bank official..

Yours sincerely,
Dr Frank Saidu.

 


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