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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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Fraud email example:

From: "ibrahim musa" <ibmus07@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ibmus1@myway.com
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:16:36 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.

FROM MR.IBRAHIM MUSA
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING
UNIT,BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC
PRIVATE PHONE 00229 97 21 99 87

Dear Friend ,

Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am MR IBRAHIM
MUSA, the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of Bank of
Africa in Cotonou-Benin Republic. I deem it fit to contact you regarding to
a transaction that will favour both of us at the end, and i got your contact
in my search for a reputable and reliable person to help me claim the fund
in question.

I discovered the sum of Eighteen,two hundred thousant United States Dollars
(USD18.2), belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund has been
lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim over the
money since the account owner late Dr. Kulta Murtaha from Idaho State, who
was involved in the December 25th Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash
website on
cnn =
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer
of the bank.

The foriegn account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to the
deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speed
up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund if
not claimed by the end of next
quarter, the government of the Republic of Benin will take over the
ownership of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. I do not
want the government to take over the ownership of this money, that is why I
contacted you for us to do the deal
together, so that I will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to the
deceased whose name is Dr.Kulta Murtaha

If you accept to carry out this project with me, I will offer you 35% of the
total sum, while I will take 65% of the total sum. Upon your acceptance to
do this deal with me, I will jointly effect the transfer within 10 bank
working days.

Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra
responssibilities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and
normally you will be required to maintain absolute information and absolute
secrecy throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing it
with a third party might jeopardise the entire transaction. Before we
proceed in this great deal,i want you to forward to me ASAP the following
information below as to establish a mutual understanding;

1)Your Residential/Office Address.
2)Your Telephone/Fax Number.
3)Your Age/Marital status.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project
as this will greatly enrich both of us at the end.

BEST REGARDS
Ibrahim Musa.

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