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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: "hazim hussan" <hazim_jk@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:17:16 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

FROM THE DESK OF Hazim hussan,
ACCOUNT& AUDIT DEPERTMENT,
BANK OF AFRICA,BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

This letter may come to you as a surprise, However let me briefly Introduce
myself to you, I am hazim hussan the head of Account and Audit Department
of Bank Of Africa, in Burkina Faso. I just want to share a mutual Business
relationship with you which will benefit both of us at
the end of it. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US
dollars(Ten million, five hundred thousand US dollars)In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died a long with his entire
family in 16 February 1998 in a plane crash. 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 learnt that
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 and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release
the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury 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.
We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
Respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
Expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my
colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for
Disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable
the Immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you will apply first
to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your
private telephone and fax
number for easy and effective communication and location where the money
will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email a text of
the application you will use to apply to the bank. I will not fail to bring
to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer.

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

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,
hazim hussan

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