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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: Amira Omran <amiraomran001@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:52:15 +0100
Subject: Dearest

My Dearest ,

Good day and how are you doing today. I'm really delighted to communicate
with you and I believe we can achieve everything together and create
something great in nearest future. My name is Ms. Amira Omran Hussain
Ibrahim and I'm a young girl of 24 year old from Kobani a city in the
Aleppo Governorate in Northern Syria and presently, I'm residing in the
Republic of Burkina Faso as a refugee due to killing of my parents by the
ISIS fighters on the year 2015 popularly know as "Kobani Massacre" that was
carried out by the Daesh/ISIS fighters. Please don't be discouraged for
hearing this. I believe deep down inside me that you will never break my
heart or let me down in anyway.

My beloved father(Mr.Omran Hussain Ibrahim ) was the Mayor of the city of
Kobani and also the Head of Aleppo Investment Authority. The brutal killing
of my father took place one early morning by the Daesh/ISIS fighters as a
result of the ongoing civil war in Syria. I was in my first year in the
University of Aleppo studying Arts and Humanities before the sad incident
and that led to the death of my beloved father. I know that it is too early
to disclose my life story to you but please bear with me. My living
condition is very critical, please I need your possible help to reclaim my
inheritance and start a new life. My uncle have sought to kill me so that
he will have full control of my father's estate but I am happy that all his
evil failed.

Meanwhile, I decided to travel abroad in order to secure my future but the
problem is that since I don't have an international passport, I cannot be
allowed to enter any Country freely and legally. However, the only choice
for me was to enter Turkey, because it is not far from Kobani and many
people are crossing to Turkey so I joined them and crossed over to Turkey.
It was in my presence that the Turkish soldiers gunned down Kader Ortakaya
a famous woman activist at the Turkey and Syria border. A lot happened
during this conflict, it was awful, I only thank God that I'm alive today.

I arrived to Burkina Faso through the help of International Red Cross and
Red Crescent Movement, they were moving people away from the Turkish border
because of the insecurity of the border, so they moved some people to
Canada, some to Germany and Italy and few to Morocco and Burkina Faso. I
decided to come to Burkina Faso, because when my beloved father was alive,
he revealed to me about the sum of $27.5 Million which he deposited in one
of the Banks in Burkina Faso with my name as his next of kin. On my arrival
to Ouagadougou, where the Bank is located, I contacted them to clear the
money, but the Branch operation Manager who confirmed the deposited amount
of money told me that my status as a refugee according to the Laws of
Burkina Faso does not permit me to engage in any Bank transaction. He
advised me to nominate a trustee who will stand on my behalf and carry out
the operation. This has become necessary after I have been denied the right
to own a Bank account or perform other forms of financial transaction here
because I am a political asylum seeker. So, I decided to get in touch with
you so that you will help me with the transfer of this money into your Bank
account for investment in your Country. After you have received the money
in your Bank account, you will send me some amount of money to process my
traveling papers because I want to relocate to your Country where I will
start a new life with you. And I intend to complete my academic studies in
your Country. I accept to share my life with you and give you all my
attention from day one of the meetings.

Immediately you confirm your interest to help me, then I will give you more
details as to how we shall conclude this transaction. Please do let me know
if you are interested in helping me with the transfer of the money into
your bank account for possible investment in your Country so that I will
send you more details on how you will stand as my trustee and finalize the
transaction with the Bank where my dad deposited the money. I beg you
please to keep this as a top secret between us for confidential reasons. At
the moment I am living in the Mission House. Life in this place is very
unbearable because we are not allowed to go out and we are monitored by the
Church security guard. Please help me because I want to leave this place
quickly to live my normal with you.
Please all communications should be through this email address for
confidential purposes ( amiraomran001@gmail.com )

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours truly,
Ms.Amira Omran Hussain Ibrahim .

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