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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: "Salif Ibrahim" <salifibrahim.4@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: salifibrahim@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 11:47:00 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED!!!

FROM THE DESK OF ALH SALIF IBRAHIM
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA.


RE: TRANSFER OF ($27,500.000.00 USD)
(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)

Dear Friend

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 27,500.000.00 USD) Twenty seven million
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from the Bank of Africa, I
want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve
to receive this funds quitely.

I am Alhaji ALH SALIF IBRAHIM, the accountant personal confidant to Dr.
Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula
Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend
wedding in Boston.

Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died
last year tow without having any beneficiary to his assets including his
account here in Burkina Faso which he opened in a Bank of Africa in the
year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and
developement of his companybefore his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD 27,500,000.00)Twenty seven Million Five Hundred
Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you
for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to
first transfer $7,500.000.00 ( Seven million
five hundred thousand USD) from this money into a safe account abroad,
after which we will transfer the remaining (20M) but I don't know any
foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can
not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign
passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international
passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US
Dollars and the
former owner of the a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such
the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.However, I am revealing
this to you with believe in ALLHA that you will never let me down in this
business, you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for
this business, so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you the next step to take urgently.

Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details
of the account to
be used for the deposit.I need your full co-operation to make this work
fine. because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.I look forward to
your earliest reply .

Sincerely,
ALLA BLESS YOU.
ALH SALIF IBRAHIM
BANK OF AFRICA

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