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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: "ibrahim bello" <i_bello77@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: i_bello001@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:54:54 +0000
Subject: TOP SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL ,

FROM THE DESK OF IBRAHIM BELLO
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.


Dear Friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but i got your contact
through the internet
when i was seaching for a reliablie person who will assist me as i need a
reliable and honest business partner outside Burkina Faso.I am writing to
seek your interest over a transaction, In my department, We discovered an
abandoned sum of $30m US dollars (THIRTY MILLION US DOLLARS) . In an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in November 2001 in a plane crash.

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
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deaceased 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
unclaimed after some years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of a 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 incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my
colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for
disbursement according 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 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 where in the money will be
remitted to .

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you the details of the whole
transaction. 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.

Your’s faithfully,
IBRAHIM BELLO
BIll an exchange manager,
AfricaN DEVELOPMENT BANK. (ADB)

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