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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: "ibram ali" <ibram_ali10@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:51:08 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR IBRAM ALI

FROM THE DESK OF MR IBRAM ALI
BANK OF AFRICA [BOA]
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

ibram_ali2@yahoo.com
Dear friend,

Compliments, Salam Alaykum!

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of
BANK OF AFRICA.

I am writting to seek your coperation over this business deal.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of$15million
USD(THIRTYmillion US dollars)only , in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash
that took
place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of
Atlanta,United
States of America but naturalised in Burkinafaso,West Africa and contractor
with
ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES) .

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in
our banking guidelines but unfortunately , 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 now decided to makethis
businness proposal to you and release the money to you via your foreign bank
account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money Could go into the
Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remainedunclamed after four years, the money will betransfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this
business
is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for expences incured
during
the business and 50 % would be for me.There after I will come over to 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 the relation or next of kin to
the
deceased,indicating your claims and wherein the money will be remitted .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
application which you will fill and submit to the office of the foreign
remittance
director of the bank of africa. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this
transaction is stricly confidential and i will use my position in this Bank
to
effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.

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

Trusting to hear from you immediately.


Please , visit the website below for more informations about the Plane
Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late DR.
GEORGE
BRUMLEY.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

Your’s faithfully,

ibram_ali2@yahoo.com
MR IBRAM ALI

Bill AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA.

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