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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: Law Office <o_law@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: chamber_b@ymail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:04:36 +0800 (CST)
Subject: THE BILL AND EXCHAGE MANAGER


THE BILL AND EXCHAGE MANAGER



BANQUE OF AFRICA BENIN(BOAB).



54-56 AVE.RUE DE SEGBEYA.



BENIN (CONTONOU). WEST AFRICA.



FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER JULIEN







Dear,







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 BANQUE OF AFRICA BENIN (BOAB) .I am writing through an
impressive information i got during one of my internet research
programme on my quest 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 $ 30M US dollars
(thirty million,US Dollars), in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died in July 2000 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 money 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 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 guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after two years, the money 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 25% of this money 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 70%
would be for me and my colleagues.







Moreoevr 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 24 working days.







Best regards,



JULIEN.




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