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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: bellotanja@apropo.ro
Date: 30 Mar 2005 21:41:22 -0000
Subject: URGENT NEEDED


FROM THE DESK OF Mr BELLO TANJA

BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.



Dear Friend,

I am the manager bill and exchange at AFRICAN

DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) foreign remittance department .

There is a business I would want you to champion for

me.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of

$22.6MUSD dollars (Twenty two million and two hundred

thousand US dollars) . In an account that belongs to

one of our foreign customer who died along with his

entire family 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 in the plane

crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided

to make this businness 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 guidelines here stipulates that if

such money remained unclamed after four years, the

money will be transfered 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. I 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 incured during the

business and 60 % would be for me . Thereafter I will

visit 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 relations or next of kin of the deceased

indicating your bank name, your bank account number,

your private telephone and fax number for easy and

effective communication and location where in the

money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax

or email the text of the application. 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

Mr.BELLO TANJA








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