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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: isa musa <isamusa_06@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:30:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RESPOND SOONEST.(URGENTLY). ..


ISA MUSA.

15 kolughu naba av.

Age:46years old.
Email:isamusa_06@yahoo.com
Marital status:married with 4children.
Occupation:banker.
Country:burkina faso.
City:ouagadougou.

I am ISA MUSA,a staff working at the auditing depatment of the,BANK OF AFRICA(B .O. A)Ouagadougou Burkina-faso West Africa.This is an urgent and very confidential business proposition.I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business transaction.In my department, i discovered an abandoned sum of US$12,300,000.00, (Twelve Million, three hundred thousand 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,on monday the 21st of july 2003 and the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America whose residence was here in Burkina Faso,West Africa and also a physician who died in that plane crash with his entire family on board .

Since i got the information about his death,my bank 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 make this business proposal to you and for the bank to release the money to you via your foreign bank account as the next of kin/business associate to the deceased person 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 remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum co-operations,understandings as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin to the deceased person in this transaction is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.In conclusion,40% of this total money will be for you as my foreign partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account while 10% will be set aside for the expenses that may be incured during the transaction and 50% will be for me.Thereafter, i will come over to your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you have to apply first to the foreign remittance department of the bank as the next of kin / business associate to the deceased customer of the bank,indicating your claim over the fund and where the money will be remitted.As soon as you responded to this my proposal,i will send to you the contact of the foreign remittance department of the bank of which you are to fill and submit to the office of the foreign remittance department director of the Bank of Africa.I must not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is strictly confidential,100% risk-free.

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.Copy this website as it is below here and paste it at the internet explore in your computer system to open the website of the deceased and his entire family involved at the plane crash.Here is the website of the plane crash below:

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


Awaiting your urgent and swift responds to this my proposal.



Thanks from,
ISA MUSA.






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