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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: "dr khalam" <dr_khalam00018@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: dr_khalam02@myway.com
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:15:01 +0000
Subject: reply me immediately

From: Dr Issa Khalam

Attention please,

I am Dr Issa Khalam the bank manager of BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) BURKINA FASO
WEST AFRICA BRANCH.
I am contacting you based on Trust and confidentiality that you will keep
this as top secret.
don't be scared or surprised, i am the manager of BANK OF AFRICA and i have
an opportunity to transfer sum of US$10.5MILLION (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
UNITED STATE DOLLARS) I have the courage to look for a reliable and Honest
Person who will be capable for this important business Transaction,
believing that you will never let me down either now or in Future. The owner
of this account is JOSEPH F. GRILLO, foreigner and he is the Manager Of
petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by Proffession.He died in world
trade
center as a victim of the September 11,2001 Incident that befall the
United State of America, the bank has made series of efforts to contact any
of the relatives to claim this money but without success, you can
confirm through this website:
http://www.september11victims.com/september11Victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1260
and my Investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know
anything About this account.
I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign account abroad but I Don't
know any foreigner,I know that this message will come to you as a surprise
as we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it is real And A
Genuine business.
hope that you will never let me down in
this transaction, at the conclusion of this business, you will be
giving 30% of the total amount, 70% will be for me. I look forward to
your earliest reply by email for more details Thanks.

Best regards
Dr Khalam

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