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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: "charles grangra" <charlesgrangra02@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:36:17 +0000
Subject: from manager auditing and accounting( boa )

FROM THE DESK OF MR KABORE GRANGRA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPT at Bank OF AFRICA
(BOA).
Burkina Faso West
Africa.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD$12.6 m US
dollars (Twelve Millions six hundred thousand US dollars) . In an account
that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in a concord plane crash in the year 2000 in paris that almost took
the
whole life of the pasengeres on board.

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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines 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 and other officials in my department now decided to make
this
businness 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 guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the
Bank
treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside
for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for ;me and my
colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for
disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable
the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating
your
bank name, your bank account number, 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 email the text of the
application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that 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 receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.ALTERNATIVE
EMAIL(winters02@tsamail.co.za)

Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR KABORE GRANGRA

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