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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "salif dotu" <salifdotu6@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:23:42 +0000
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME IT IS SO IMPORTANT

FROM THE DESK OF DR. SALIF DOTU
BILL AND EXCHANGE FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA ( BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO ,

Dear friend,
Compliments,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of BANK OF AFRICA.
I am writting to seek your coperation over this businessdeal.In my
department, I discovered an abandoned sum of $30million USD(THIRTYmillion US
dollars)only , in anaccount 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 make this 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
unclaimed after five 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 aforeigner.
40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner,inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for expences incured
during the business and 50 % would be for me.There after I will come over to
your country for disbursement accoding 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 andsubmit to the office of the foreign
remittance director of the bank of africa. I will not failto 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
Yours faithfully,
salif dotu

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