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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: mr.kabore1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:50:43 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PRIVATE=20CONFIDENTIAL=20=2E?=

FROM THE DESK OF MR MUSTAPHA KABORE
BANK BICIA-B BURKINA-FASO.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
PRIVATE CONFIDENTIAL .

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Banque Internationale pour Le commerce L, Industrial et de la Agriculture
Du Burkinafaso,

I got your contact through Burkinafaso information network
online services,I know that this message will be a surprise to you and it
coming to you with good intention which will be of mutual benefit for both
of us.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 20m US dollars (Twenty
million US dollars)In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his entire family in December last year in a plain crash
in Cotonu when going on Holiday with his family.

Since we got information about his death, There is nobody to stand as his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidelines.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I 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 andsubsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
Bill and it will not be augur well for the fund to be unclaimed.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remainedunclamed after one years, the money will be transfere
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 Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

50 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the
provision of a foreign account, 50 % would be for me.There after I 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
must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased.


Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application which you will fill and send to the office of the Director
Foreign Remittance Department ,

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
and informations areon my desk.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter Trusting
to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,
KABORE MUSTAPHA.
Bill and exchange manager,
BANK BICIAB Burkinafaso




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