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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: ibhassan@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:52:59 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?waiting=20for=20your=20call=20or=20reply?=

FROM: Mr Ibrahim Hassan.
Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso.
Telephone: 00226 76 58 07 11.
Private Email: ibhassan@walla.com

Dear Friend ,

I am MR IBRAHIM HASSAN, personal adviser to MR BRAIN ISAAC ,who died in
an auto crash in Nov,2000 and since then i have tried to establish contact
with any member of his family but this has been difficult as he left no
clue to trace his family.
Given this suitation at hand which has made it impossible for me to handover
his assets to any of his family and to make matters very urgent his bank
here has called me to let me know that he has a account deposit balance
of $10.5 million United staes dollars($10.5m) with them and given the financial
law of the country ,if the account is not claimed in 5years,the fund in
the account will be handed over to the state treasury as state fund.
I was therefore asked to present a beneficiary to the fund since i was late
MR ISAAC's adviser.

I therefore ask for your help to retransfer this fund into your bank account
as to be forwarded by you to MR Brain Isaac's bank here ,since there is
no record of a next of kin to the said fund .Note that every arrangement
has been made to that effect and there is no risk involved .All i need is
your coperation and you follow my instructions.

If you are interested to do this transaction with me ,please do call me
or reply me email so that we proceed and conclude this transaction which
will be for a period of 15 bank working days.

I look forward to hearing from you.Please do reply me through my private
email address:ibhassan@walla.com

Regards,
Mr Ibrahim Hassan.
Burkina Faso.
00226 76 58 07 11.
ibhassan@walla.com



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