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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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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Ndive Ijendu" <ndiveijendu122@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: namundive2005@mixmail.com
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:34:37 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT

FROM THE DESK OF MR NDIVE EDWIN IJENDU
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANEGER ,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of auditing and accounting at the foreign remittance
department of BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In
my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$35m dollars (Thirty five
Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our for eign
customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with
his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.For more informations about
the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm 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 some body applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidlings 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 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 five 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 occassioned 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 a respect to the provision
of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the businessand 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country
for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable
the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to
the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of
application that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me 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 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 receiv e this letter to my altanetive email
address bellow(


Trusting to hear from you immediately.Yours Faithfully,

1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.

MR NDIVE EDWIN IJENDU



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