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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: "Salif Ibrahim" <salifibrahim.15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sa_ibrahim@myway.com
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:23:03 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED!!!

FROM THE DESK OF ALH SALIF IBRAHIM
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA.


RE: TRANSFER OF ($27,500.000.00 USD)
(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)

Dear Friend,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 27,500.000.00 USD) Twenty seven million
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from the Bank of Africa, I
want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve
to receive this funds quitely.

I am Alhaji ALH SALIF IBRAHIM, the accountant personal confidant to Dr.
Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula
Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend
wedding in Boston.

Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died
without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in
Burkina Faso which he opened in a Bank of Africa in the year 2000 as his
personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his
companybefore his untimely death in 2003.

The amount involved is (USD 27,500,000.00)Twenty seven Million Five Hundred
Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you
for us to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I want to
first transfer $7,500.000.00 ( Seven million five hundred thousand USD)
from this money into a safe account abroad, after which we will transfer
the remaining (20M) but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you
as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person
here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved
to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and
foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the former owner of the
a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such the money can only
be approved into a foreign a/c.However, I am revealing this to you with
believe in ALLAH that you will never let me down in this business, you are
the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
urgently.

Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details
of the account to be used for the deposit.I need your full co-operation to
make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment
to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will
give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you
are capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is
deeply involved with me in this business.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.I look forward to
your earliest reply .

Sincerely,
ALLAH BLESS YOU.
ALH SALIF IBRAHIM
BANK OF AFRICA

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