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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: "Amadi Osman" <amadi_osman3@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:22:04 +0000
Subject: OUR OPPORTUNITY - PLS RESPOND

Dear Friend,

Compliments of the season.

I know that this letter may come to you as a great surprise,but please don't let it bother you so much i sent it to you for our mutual benefits.As it may interest you to know i got your e-mail address through Burkinese Chambers Of Commerce.

I am the director in charge of auditing and accounting section at the foriegn remittance department of International Bank Of Africa (Iba) here in Ouagadoudou-Burkina Faso,West Africa.

In my department i discovered a huge abandoned sum of US$13.7Million Dollars ( Thirteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foriegn customer who died along with his entire family on October 31st 1999 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of kin to come over here and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we Were extremely Surprised that nobody came as his next of kin to claim the fund uptill now.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you So That Bank will release the fund 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 guidling here stipulates that if such fund remained unclaimed after TEN YEARS the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you for your assistance,and in respect to the provision of a foriegn account,10% will be set aside for expenses incured during the transfer of the fund into your account while 60% will be for me as the originator of the transaction.I will visit your country for disbursement of the fund according to the percentage indicated as soon as the total fund is transferred into your account.

Therefore,to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation 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 wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you a text of application for you to apply to the bank.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.But you must keep it very secret untill the fund is transferred to your account to avoid any implication now that am still a civil servant.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you recieve this letter so that I will send you the application to apply to the bank.I will be here monitoring the whole transaction on your behalf as soon as you have applied as the beneficiary .

Please feel free to call me on this my mobile line 00226-76-43-74-08 for more clarifications.I am waiting urgently for your response.

Yours faithfully.
MR.AMADI OSMAN



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