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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: j mohamed <j_mohamed01@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:36:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: read this details and call me


Dearest Friend,
How are you today with your family , first of all because you need to understand this transaction first before we continue this transaction .
Now you read this details and understand it very well ok.
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Dearest Friend,

Thank you for your mail .I am happy to share this transaction with you ,but you must keep everything as top secret and very confidental.Well i will like to use this opportunity to tell you the details concerning this transaction and also i will advise you to feel free with me forall is well .

The deceased account holder with our bank was Mr Salif Kattan a jordan national who nationalised here in Burkina Faso for (16)years. He held account number BOA/26375782341 with our bank . he died in the 1998 ADC plane crash with his family .Since his death ,this account has been dormant and no body has applied to our bank for the release of this money to him or her as the next of kin .

As the bill and exchange manager of this bank, i have studied this transaction very carefully and i have noted that there is no risk involved.I am here to protect all your intrests in this transaction until this money hits your account.

My advise to you is to arrange for a receivng bank account into which our bank shall transfer this money in your favour as next of kin and you have noting to fear since iam here ,i shall be giving you all the developmental informations from the bank as soon as the transaction comence.

Dear friend, i know that you will not disapoint me when this money enter into your account, i have all my hope in this transaction because i shall soon go on retirement, i am a simple banker whose credibility is still intact and with my maturity and understanding , I promise to give the best co-operation. We must hurry up with this transaction so that our bank and government shall not claim and inherit this money because it have over stayed,

There is no doubt about your eligibility as the legal next of kin to our deceased customer and owner of the account number BOA/2637578-2341 with
the following reasons:

(a)Before the death of our deceased customer,his true next of kin was not indicated to the board of directors of the bank because of the top secrecy and confidenciality of the transactions which our late custome transacted with the verious governments in West Africa.

(b)Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the bank,it is therefor impossible for the board of directors of the bank to verify the next of kin as well as the true heritier of the fund.

My dear brother as soon as i hear from you i will be given you the text of application to apply to the bank for official protocols,waiting to hear from you urgently. and my number is this you have to call me for more explanation 00226 76 63 87 21

Regard

Brother judic mohamed



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