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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: "basan bala" <basan040@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:11:36 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

FROM THE DESK OF MR BRUNO ASAN
BANK OF AFRICA [BOA]
00226 76 49 95 60
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

Dear friend,
Compliments,Salam Alaykum!
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA in
Ouagadougou,Burkina faso.
I am writting to seek your coperation over this business
deal.

In my department,I discovered an abandoned sum of$10million
USD(TENmillion 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 remained unclamed after four years, the money will be
transfered 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.
I agreed to offer you 30% of this money as my foreign
partner as soon as we conclude up the transaction,being
inrespect to the provision of a foreign account. 10 %will
be set aside for expences incured during the business and
60% 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

PLEASE REPLY AT MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL:
brunoasan@yahoo.com

Yours Faithfully,
MR BRUNO ASAN
Bill AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA.
FROM THE DESK OF MR BRUNO ASAN
BANK OF AFRICA [BOA]
00226 76 49 95 60
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

Dear friend,
Compliments,Salam Alaykum!
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA in
Ouagadougou,Burkina faso.
I am writting to seek your coperation over this business
deal.

In my department,I discovered an abandoned sum of$10million
USD(TENmillion 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 remained unclamed after four years, the money will be
transfered 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.
I agreed to offer you 30% of this money as my foreign
partner as soon as we conclude up the transaction,being
inrespect to the provision of a foreign account. 10 %will
be set aside for expences incured during the business and
60% 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

PLEASE REPLY AT MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL:
brunoasan@yahoo.com

Yours Faithfully,
MR BRUNO ASAN
Bill AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA.

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