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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: "musa mantu" <musa_mantu39@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:48:45 +0000
Subject: REQUREST FOR CO-OPERATIVE BUSINESS.

MR.MUSA MANTU.
Head Foreign Exchange Dept:
Bank OF AFRICA, Burkina-Faso.

ATTN:/ CEO.

Dear Friend,

REQUREST FOR CO-OPERATIVE BUSINESS

I came across your e-mail address through internet index and i felt that you
can be of assistance to me.

I want my bank to transfer out $15,000,000.00(Fifteen Million United state
Dollars) from our bank here, I have the courage to contact you for this
important transaction,believing that you will never let me down either now
or in future.

I am the manager of foreign exchange department of bank of africa BOA here
in Ouagadougou,Burkina-Faso. There is an account opened in this bank in 1995
and since my inception into office in 2002, nobody has operated on this
account again, after going through some old files, I discovered that if i do
not remit this money out urgently, it will be forfeited for nothing.

Please View this website:

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

I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be
approved to any local bank here in Burkina-Faso, but can only be approved to
any foreign account because the money is in Dollars and the former owner of
the account was 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) .

It was said that this foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya,East Africa,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 customer 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.


At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 55% will be for me, while 10% will be for any expenses both parties
might have incurred during this process.Please your urgent respond is needed
immediately after reading this mail then i will be giving you more details
on how we are going carry out something's in this transaction.


Thanks
Sincerely,
MR.MUSA MANTU.

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