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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: lazz kabore <lakabo_burkina1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:26:44 +0100 (CET)
Subject: more infor, this is real and never a childs play. reply back


Dear Babinder,

How are you and your family, hope fine?
thank you so much for your urgent response towards my business proposal.
first of all i will want you to be communicating with me through this email address or you call me with my mobile phone number(0022676642303)

So bellow are the details informations about the business.i want you to go through this details because the success of this business is relied on this detail informations in which i am sending you now,so after you might have gone through it then you have to decide whether you will be able to carry out this business with me or not,after reading all the explanations given to you here,if there is any question or any thing you want me to clear you on before we go ahead you are free to ask me.


Now listen very good,i have been in this bank for more than 19 years now and i can not boast of any great acheivevement as a banker,i have not even dicovered this opportunity sice then but i have a school friend who is in the same position with me in another bank,he recently resigned from service and have almost concluded arrangements to establish an insurance firm in south africa coupled with the acquisition of some landed properties worth several millions within the neighbouring countries here,being a closs friend of mine right from school he now gave me this idea of which i want us to try now because he has applied the same method to make wealth.He ask me if there is no money that has no inheritor after my annual auditing,then i told him that there are,so he told me that i should look for some body and direct the person to come and claim the money on his name then after the t money will be shared according to percentage agreed.

Therefore when i discovered this fund based on the explantions from my collegue i then decided to look for a trustworthy, honest and reliable fellow who will assist me to champion the course of this business transaction, then i went into seven days prayers asking God to connect me with a reliable counterpart who will not betray me at the end of the business. it was after the prayers then i went to the international directory on the computer and when i saw your email adress and name i was then convinced that this is the right person, my spirit was immediately overwhelmed with joy, though we have not seen each other but through this we have come to be together as business partners..this is not ordinary, it is a divine connection.then i decided to contact you.

So after considering this idea,i come to realize that since the constitution of this bank stated that any abandorned fund left in this bank for more than seven years will be transfered to the banks treasury as an unclaimed fund,and will be inherited by the federal government.based on this discovery i decided to contact you, and i want you to understand that you are the only person i have contacted for this transaction, and before this time i have carried out a thoroughl investigation concernig the fund and every neccessary arrangement to ensure a hitch free transction has been made and concluded by me as the personal account manager to this fund,
i want to let you know that i have all the informations with me that will ensure a smooth release of this fund to any foriegner who apllies for the fund because the bank is now waiting for any foriegner who will apply and they will release this fund.

i also want you to understand the reason why i contacted you,as you may know it is because i as an insider of this bank i can not be directly involved that is why i have to look for a foriegner so that i will feed the person with all the neccessary informations that will enhance a smooth and hitch free transfer, i am the only person in this world who have all the vital informations to this fund,and if i does not claim it now, very soon it will enter into the banks treasury account.

when this fund is due for transfer i suggest that you request as an option that the bank release to you firstly, fifty thousand dollars,as a banker i know that if the whole amount enters your account like that into your country, i believe it will raise an eyebrow on you by the authorities, so i decided that you will use this 500000dollars to travel out of your country and open accounts in that country of your choice where the fund will be finally transfered to, thereby not causing any harm or interrogation.

as we prosper in this transaction, once i confirm that the fund is due for the final remittance i will start making arrangements for my resignation,in other to travel to your country for my own share, but before this i believe we shall come to know each other the more.

remember once more that i have all the neccessary documentations, and i assure you, the legality of this transction, anyway as we move futher you will come to realise the authenticity and genuity of what am telling you today as far as you follow my instructions and guidelines,since am the person who introduced you to this, i would not want anything that will dent my good reputation as a banker,so be rest assured but just follow the guidelines because i have studied it very well.

the most important aspect of it all is that i will send you an application form which you have to fill and send to the bank, it is this application that will determine wether we are going to continue with the business or not, if the bank accept this application, then you know that we are going to have this fund but if the bank did not accept the application then every body has to peacefully go his or her own way without any problem, and we forget about the transaction, so in the next letter i will send you the application. i will also like to have your number for easy communication,also note that you will be checking your mail at least twice a day, please do not betray my confidence.



thanks for co-operation
Lazz Kabore

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