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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: mussa ali <mussaali00001@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 04:20:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: URGENT REPLY


Dear madras

How are you and your family this Morning?I hope all is well.

Thank you for your mail and I am happy to share this transaction with you, but you must keep everything as top secret and very confidential.This is a business that require 100% absolute secret, it is a business that you don´t allow your right hand to know what your left hand is doing. Please are you capable to do this transaction with me.

Please understand that you and I myself, are to work as one team to inherit this fund, hence I am your insider in the bank as the transaction commence.i advise you to feel free with me for all is going to be well with us.

The deceased account holder with our bank was MR. Salla khatif from Lebanese who nationalised here in Burkina Faso for (16)years. He held account number No.BOA 4934109 with our bank.Who was involved in the December 25th 2003 Benin plane crash. with his family. Since his death, this account has been dormant and no body has applied to our bank for the release of this money to him or her as the next of kin.

I want you to arrange for a good receiving bank account into which our bank shall transfer this money in your favour as next of kin and you have nothing to fear since I am here,I shall be giving you all the developmental information´s from the bank as soon as the transaction commence.

I know that you will not disappoint or let me down when this money enter into your account, I have all my hope in this transaction because I shall soon go on retirement, I am a simple banker whose credibility is still intact and with my maturity and understanding,I promise to give the best co-operation and we must hurry up with this transaction so that our bank and government shall not claim and inherit this money because it have over stayed in the bank.

There is no doubt about your eligibility as the legal next of kin to our deceased customer and owner of the account number NO.BOA4934109 with the following reasons:

(1.)Before the death of our deceased customer, his true next of kin was not indicated to the board of directors of the bank because of the top secrecy and confidentiality of the business which our late customer transacted with the various governments in West Africa.

(2.)Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the bank, it is therefore impossible for the board of directors of the bank to verify the next of kin as well as the true heritor of the fund.

(3.)The deceased late MR Salla khatif from Lebanese , did not have,any relationships with our bank, he was only a customer to our bank. So there is no trace either now or in future.

(4.)And for the above reasons, the managements of the bank authorised me officially as the ,Bill and Exchange manager of the bank to verify the next of kin to our deceased customer. Therefore, the bank will always abide by my official directions through the official authorisation bestowed on me.
And for this reasons you have nothing to fear as your interest and identity will be legally protected.

As you know such a business will require international-transaction. So we both shall jointly combine our efforts financially in any expenses that shall incure in the process of this transaction.

Remember that 40% of this fund has being declared for you,in your assistance for providing an account where this fund will be transferred into and for all your effort, and all other incuring expenses in course of this transfering of this fund into your account.

My good brother i will like you to know that i work with this bank as the manager of Bill and Exchange department,so i came across this great opportunity when we where doing the last auditing last year,so i just decided to keep it within me and study it very well before carrying it out which i did for one year.

What i mean by my bank is the bank of africa where the fund is laying down in an account and i have access to his banking informations as my department is the department that make account to the bank,so we know about every customer's account here in the bank.

The bank i am refering to is my bank which is BANK OF AFRICA and it is all over the countries in west african,so it is a very big bank,so i will advice you not to put any atome of fear in this transaction as i have put everything in order to see that this fund hit your account once you apply for the release of the fund as the next of kin to the deceased customer which i will forward to you the text of application form,but before i will forward the application form to you,i will like you to know that there are expences that will occure in the process of this transaction which i am not capable to handle,so i will like to know from you if you are financial capable in handling this huge amount transaction as money will be involve to take care of the expences,so if you are financially capable in handling this deal,i will like you to give me the answers to these questions:

1.your age

2.your marital status

3.your occupation

4.if you are ready to keep the transaction as top secret as i do not want it to jeopadise or have my reputable immage dented

5.your financial capability in handling this transcation as money will be involve

6.your credibility and reliability as to avoid betrayal from you or seating on my share when the funds finaly hits your bank account

7.that all my instructions as an insider and as the initiator of the transaction would be taking for the betterment of a hitch transfer and also include your private telephone and fax number and endevoure to call me with my private telephone line 00226 76 10 16 49.your immediate response shall be most appreciated as the urgency of the transfer implies for we don't have enough time again to excute this transaction.


I await your urgent call.

your humble partner
Mussa Ali

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