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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: alui_isa@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:07:27 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY SIR, PLZ REPLY ME SOONEST.

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




Dear friend ,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.BANK OF
AFRICA(BOA)I am writing, following the impressive information about you
through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your country. He
assured me of your capability and releability to champion this
business opportunity.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$10m US dollars (Ten
Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his entire family on Monday,31 July, 2000,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 guidlines and laws 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 guidline here stipulates
that if such money
remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the
bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreign as next of kin in
this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incured during the business and 65% 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 must apply first to the bank as relation 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
wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text
of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is risk-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 for
more explanations.

Yours faithfully,
DR ALUI ISAAKA.

Always mail me at alui_isa02@hotmail.com



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