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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 Waheed Oman <dr_waheed_oman01@sify.com>
Reply-To: dr_oman147@hotmail.fr
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:59:36 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL.












FROM THE DESK OF DR. WAHEED OMAN
AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB)
54-56 RUE DE THOMSON, OUAGADOUGOU.
BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.
TEL: 00226 74784462.

                                                           CONFIDENTIAL

Dear Friend,
 
With due respect, I write to you this urgent and
confidential business proposal. I am the manager of bill and Exchange,Foreign
Remittance Department of THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB) in BURKINA FASO. I
have an impressive information and i got your email address during one of my
internet research programme on my request for a capable hand who will handle
this transaction for me. I am sure of your capability and reliability to
champion this business opportunity.
 
In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $10.5M US DOLLARS in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died in July 2001 in the Concord Plane crash in Paris.Since
we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin
to come over and claim his FUND because we cannot release 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 all his supposed next of kin
or relation died alongside with him leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It
is therefore upon this 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 or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement sincenobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
 
The Banking law and guideline
here stipulates that if such fund remained unclaimed after ten years, the fund
will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a
foreigner as the next of kin or relation in this business is occasioned for the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of
kin to a foreigner. We agreed that 40% of this FUND will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside
for expenses incurred during the business and 55% would be for me and my
colleagues.moreover i and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.
 
Therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this FUND to your account as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your
bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax numbers for
easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be
remitted. Everything will be through within 14 working days.
 
Please
once you are interested kindly send me the following details information  

below:
1. NAME IN FULL:.............................
2.
ADDRESS:........................................
3.
NATIONALITY:....................................
4.
AGE:.............................................
5.
SEX..............................................
6.
OCCUPATION:.......................................
7. MARITAL
STATUS:...................................
8.
PHONE............................................
9.
FAX:.............................................
 
Best Regards,

 
DR.WAHEED OMAN.
 
NB:MAKE SURE YOU
KEEP THIS TRANSACTION AS YOUR TOP SECRET AND MAKE IT CONFIDENTIAL TILL WE
RECEIVES THE FUND INTO THE ACCOUNT
THAT YOU WILL PROVIDE TO THE BANK. DON'T
DISCLOSE IT TO ANY BODY PLEASE, BECAUSE THE SECRECY OF THIS TRANSACTION IS AS
WELL AS THE SUCCESS OF
IT.



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