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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: "danny abubaka" <danny_abubaka5@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: danny_abubaka@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:27:23 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL/URGENT/ASSISTANT.

FROM THE DESK OF MR DANNY ABUBAKA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.



Dear Friend

I am MR DANNY ABUBAKA bill and exchange manager at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.

I got your contact from the internet ,while seaching for an honest
and trust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this
transfer. l discovered the sum of Twenty Two million and five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) 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 Mr Salla
khatif from Lebanese , who was involved in the December 25th 2003
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website onfiltered=
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.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next if 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 guidlines and laws 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 decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come
forward as the next of kin,

I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services
rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured
during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to
your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will
proceed
immediately to your country for our own share of the money.

I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret
as you may wish to know that I am Bank official. Be rest assured
that this business is 100% riskfree on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality
and secreceirity involved.


1.your sex

2.your age

3.occupation

4.your nationality

5.telephone no.

Contact me on my email address I am looking forward for your prompt

Yours faithfully,

MR DANNY ABUBAKA.


FROM THE DESK OF MR DANNY ABUBAKA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.



Dear Friend

I am MR DANNY ABUBAKA bill and exchange manager at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.

I got your contact from the internet ,while seaching for an honest
and trust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this
transfer. l discovered the sum of Twenty Two million and five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) 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 Mr Salla
khatif from Lebanese , who was involved in the December 25th 2003
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website onfiltered=
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.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next if 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 guidlines and laws 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 decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come
forward as the next of kin,

I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services
rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured
during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to
your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will
proceed
immediately to your country for our own share of the money.

I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret
as you may wish to know that I am Bank official. Be rest assured
that this business is 100% riskfree on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality
and secreceirity involved.


1.your sex

2.your age

3.occupation

4.your nationality

5.telephone no.

Contact me on my email address I am looking forward for your prompt

Yours faithfully,

MR DANNY ABUBAKA.


FROM THE DESK OF MR DANNY ABUBAKA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.



Dear Friend

I am MR DANNY ABUBAKA bill and exchange manager at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.

I got your contact from the internet ,while seaching for an honest
and trust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this
transfer. l discovered the sum of Twenty Two million and five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) 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 Mr Salla
khatif from Lebanese , who was involved in the December 25th 2003
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website onfiltered=
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.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next if 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 guidlines and laws 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 decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come
forward as the next of kin,

I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services
rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured
during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to
your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will
proceed
immediately to your country for our own share of the money.

I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret
as you may wish to know that I am Bank official. Be rest assured
that this business is 100% riskfree on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality
and secreceirity involved.


1.your sex

2.your age

3.occupation

4.your nationality

5.telephone no.

Contact me on my email address I am looking forward for your prompt

Yours faithfully,

MR DANNY ABUBAKA.


FROM THE DESK OF MR DANNY ABUBAKA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.



Dear Friend

I am MR DANNY ABUBAKA bill and exchange manager at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.

I got your contact from the internet ,while seaching for an honest
and trust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this
transfer. l discovered the sum of Twenty Two million and five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) 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 Mr Salla
khatif from Lebanese , who was involved in the December 25th 2003
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website onfiltered=
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.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next if 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 guidlines and laws 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 decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come
forward as the next of kin,

I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services
rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured
during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to
your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will
proceed
immediately to your country for our own share of the money.

I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret
as you may wish to know that I am Bank official. Be rest assured
that this business is 100% riskfree on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality
and secreceirity involved.


1.your sex

2.your age

3.occupation

4.your nationality

5.telephone no.

Contact me on my email address I am looking forward for your prompt

Yours faithfully,

MR DANNY ABUBAKA.


FROM THE DESK OF MR DANNY ABUBAKA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.



Dear Friend

I am MR DANNY ABUBAKA bill and exchange manager at the foreign
remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.

I got your contact from the internet ,while seaching for an honest
and trust worthy person, who will assist me to implement this
transfer. l discovered the sum of Twenty Two million and five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD22.5M) 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 Mr Salla
khatif from Lebanese , who was involved in the December 25th 2003
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website onfiltered=
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.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next if 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 guidlines and laws 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 decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner
as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin
to a foreigner. I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come
forward as the next of kin,

I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services
rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured
during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to
your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will
proceed
immediately to your country for our own share of the money.

I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret
as you may wish to know that I am Bank official. Be rest assured
that this business is 100% riskfree on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to
provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality
and secreceirity involved.


1.your sex

2.your age

3.occupation

4.your nationality

5.telephone no.

Contact me on my email address I am looking forward for your prompt

Yours faithfully,

MR DANNY ABUBAKA.

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