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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: "henry kabore" <henry_kabore5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: henrykabore@myway.com
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:09:56 +0000
Subject: TREAT VERY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT...

FROM MR HENRY KABORE
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE
FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK{ADB}.
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.

Dear Partner,
I presumed that all is well with you and your family.
Please let this do not be a surprise message to you because i got your
contact information from
the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact
you on this magintude and lucrative transaction for our present and future
survival in life.Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i
decided to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.

I am the Chief Auditor Incharge of the Foreign Remittance Unit of our
bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the
sum of Nineteen Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States of America
($19,300,000.00 ) for our present and future success.This is an abandoned
fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with
his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years
ago.Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit
to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of
the year against 2006.

Informed clearly that it was stated in our Foreign banking rules and
regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed
till the period of 4 years started from the date when the beneficiary died,
the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed
fund.However, it is not authorized by the rules guiding our bank for a
citizen of Burkina Faso to make the claim of the fund unless your are a
foreigner no matter the country different from the deceased.So the request
of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of
the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the next of kin to the
deceased.

When the fund is transferred into your account, { 35% } Thirty Five
Percent will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the transfer
of the fund into your account and provision of the bank account where the
bank will remit the fund into,{ 55% } Fifty Five Percent will be for me
being the pioneer of the business while the rest { 10% } Ten Percent will
be shared to respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity , Motherless
Babies Homes, and helpless disabled people around us in the World.

If you are really sure of your, Trustworthy, Accountability and
confidentiality on this transaction,contact me and accept not to change
your mind to cheat, or disappoint me when the fund is transferred into your
account.So reply for the assurance with your telephone and fax numbers
necessary to facilitate an easy communication. As soon as you reply me i
will let you know the next procedures to be follow in order to finalize
this transaction immediately.
I expect your urgent communication.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Henry Kabore.

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