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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: "alpha ibrahim" <alphaibrahim72@hotmail.com>
Date: December 16, 2004 1:39:22 PM CST
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL ........

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL ........

FROM THE DESK OF DR. ALPHA IBRAHIM
BILL AND EXCHANGE
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA ( BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO ,


Dear friend,

Compliments,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance
department
of BANK OF AFRICA.

I am writting to seek your coperation over this business
deal.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum
of$30million
USD(THIRTYmillion US dollars)only , in an account that
belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in
a plane crash
that took place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE
BRUMLEY,a citizen
of Atlanta,United States of America but naturalised in
Burkinafaso,West
Africa and contractor with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF
WEST AFRICAN
STATES) .

Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be
released unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately , 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 makethis businness proposal to you and release
the money to you
via your foreign bank account as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and
this money Could go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such
money
remainedunclamed after four years, the money will
betransfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance
and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of
kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased
customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.

40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner,
inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for
expences incured
during the business and 50 % would be for me.There after I
will come over to
your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages
indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to
you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the relation
or next of kin to
the deceased,indicating your claims and wherein the money
will be
remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of
application which you will fill and submit to the office of
the foreign
remittance director of the bank of africa. I will not fail
to bring to your
notice that this transaction is stricly confidential and i
will use my
position in this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of
the fund.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.


Please , visit the website below for more informations
about the Plane Crash
and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family,
Late DR.
GEORGE
BRUMLEY.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Your?s faithfully,


DR ALPHA IBRAHIM

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