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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: daniel bakayoko <danielbakayoko20092009@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:06:00 +0100
Subject: {HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL} (

From.Mr.Daniel.Bakayoko
# 9-10 Obrafour avenue
Legon district
Abidjan

{HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL} (RE: TRANSFER OF ($72,000.000.00 USD} {SEVENTYTWO
MILLION UNITED STATESDOLLARS)We want to transfer to overseas ($
72,000.000.00 USD) from a bank herein Abidjan, I want to ask you to quietly
look for a reliable and honest person whowill be capable and fit to provide
either an existing
bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money,
even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long asyou will
remain honest to me till the endof this important business trusting in you
and believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in
future.

I am .Mr.Daniel.Bakayoko, the Director of International Relation with a
bank here in Abidjan, during the course of our auditing I discovered a
floating fund in an account opened in the bank in 2001and since 2014 nobody
has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in
the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a
[heir] hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out
urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr .Chris Marco , a foreigner, and asailor,
and he died since 2010. and no other person knows about this account or any
thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my
investigation proved to me as well that Chris Marco was the manager of
Chris Coy.(Gh). LTD.

We will start the first transfer with Twenty Two million [$22,000.000.00]
upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account,The amount
involved is (USD 72M) I want to first transfer $22,000.000 [Twenty Two
million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners.

Account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner in my life,
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to a local person here, without valid international
foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid
nternational passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the>money
is in US dollars and the former owner of the a/c Mr. Chris Marco is a
foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
Arrange your A/c and send it to me as follows for the
processing of the payment:

Please get back to me on this email address below for more details about
me and the inheritance funds.
You are required to get back to us with this required information below to
enable you claim your processing of the payment:

Account NUMBER:....
Account NAME:...
BANK NAME:.........
BANK ADDRESS:.......
YOUR Telephone Number:.......
FULL NAME:...............
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:.......
MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:.......
OCCUPATION:...............
MARITAL STATUS AND AGE:.......
NATIONALITY....................
COUNTRY:.................
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS:......

I need your strong assurance that you will never let me down,With the in
fluence and the position of the key bank official we can transfer this
money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide
with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival
in your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents
of transaction .

Immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and tobuild
confidence, you can come mmediately to discuss with me face toface afte
which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly
to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account.I will apply for
the legal approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with
appropriate clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange
departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount,60% will be for me,5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring and 5% will be for
orphanage homes.
Best Regads,
Mr.Daniel.Bakayoko

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