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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: "Mr Allen Ibrahim" <allen00ib@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: allenibrahim@delfi.lv
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:53:34 +0000
Subject: From Mr. Allen, Awaiting your reply and call.

Mr Allen Ibrahim.
The Manager of Audit & Account Department,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B.)
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.
Dear Friend,

Please read carefully, This is secret and confidential
I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account dept of
our bank, with due respect i decided to contact you over this business
financial transaction worth the sum of FIFTEEN MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS ( 15.2Million usd ) in other to entrust this fund into your bank
account.

This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank customers
who died along with his entire family on 25th July,2002 in a plane crash
disaster.

I was very fortune to meet the deceased file when i was arranging the old
and abandoned customers files of 2001-2002 in other to submit to the bank
managements accordingly for documentation purposes. Following our banking
financial policy, it was obviously indicated and signed law fully that if
such money remains unclaimed after five years without somebody been a
foreigner apply and claim the fund as the next of kin , the money will be
transferred into the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed fund.

So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for this claim
because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim the fund
since the law does not permit an indigene to claim such fund Since the real
beneficary of the fund is died , the bank are expecting the next of kin to
apply for the release of the fund for him or her without delay but
unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried out that
there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund.

Therefore i want you to assist and apply to the bank with your reliable bank
account details where our bank will transfer the fund into and immediately
the fund is transferred into your account ,i will share the fund according
to the percentage indicated below.

(50%) of the total fund will be for me, (40%) for you in provision of the
Bank account and assistance, while (5%) will be for unexpected expenses
during the transfer, and (5%) will be preserved for helping the helpless
people, like charity organization and motherless babies.

Thereafter you will help me to visit your country for sharing the money
according to the percentage indicated above.

And for the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the only existing next of kin
to the deceased customer and after approval which will take place
immediately as you applied, the transfer of the fund into your nominated
bank account will proceed. Please note that you should keep this business as
Top Secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account which you
will provide. And there is NO RISK in this business if you can be following
my instructions as an insider here in the bank.

The bank will forward to you all necessary documents related to the transfer
and which will prove that you make a legal claim of inheritance.

It is true that i pray to GOD before i was pushed forward to contact you for
this business but i want you to assure me solemnly that you are a
trsutwothy,reliable,honest and capable to avoid cheating me in this
business. If you are really sure of your integerity, Reply immediatelly you
receive this mail and call me on +226-7650 7383 for more detailed
information on how the process to transfer the fund into your account will
be. Am looking forward hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Allen Ibrahim.

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