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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mike Nasri <mikenasri03@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mikenasri01@voila.fr
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:57:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION


THE DESK OF MR.MIKE NASRI,
BILL AND EXHANGE UNIT
BANK OF
AFRICA(B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.               

 
                                  URGENT ASSISTANCE IN
TRANSACTION  





I am the manager at the bill and exchange department at BANK OF
AFRICA
(B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.  In my department we
discovered an
abandoned sum of US$7.4m dollars ( USdollars)in an account that
belonging to one
of our foreign customer.Who died along with his entire family in monday,
31
july, 2000 in a plane crash in paris.Please visit this site that is one
of the
evidence the directors brought in other to swallow the money at the end
of the
day,  
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm    





 
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated
in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all
his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane
crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I
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 since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money
to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidline
here
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after seven years, the
money
will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request
of
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact
that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a

foreigner. I agree that 45% of this money will be for you as a respect
to the
provision of a foriegn account, 5%will be set aside for expenses
incurred during
the business and 50% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your
country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable
the
immediate transfer of this fund to your desiggnited bank account ,you
must apply
first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a
text of
application that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me
your
private telephone and faxnumber for easy and effective communication and

location where in the money will be remitted.
   
Upon receipt of
your
reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application . I
will
not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that
you
should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have
been
made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive
this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.  Please get in touch
with me
by email to enable us discuss further .
 

Regards.
Dear p/s
reply
this email thanks
MR.MIKE NASRI (B.O.A)







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