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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: Abdul Bari <dr.abdulbari121@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Abdul Bari <dr.abdulbari122@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 21:03:41 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY.


DR ABDUL BARI.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
50-54 RUE DE THOMPSON,
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of auditing and accounting department African
Development Bank (A.D.B). I got your address in Burkina Faso chamber
of commerce through yahoo details. In my department i discovered an
abandoned sum of $23.6m (Twenty three million six hundred thousand
dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his entire family in a concord plane crash in the
year 2004 in Paris that almost took the whole life of the passengers
on board. 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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but
unfortunately we learn t that all his supposed next of kin or relation
died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for
the claim.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into
the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I have agree that 40% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 40%
for you and 50% for me then 10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the transaction.

As soon as i hear from you i will send to you more details,
My privet email ( dr.abdulbari122@gmail.com )

Yours faithfully
Dr.Abdul Bari
Auditing and accounting manager A.D.B bank


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