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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "please indicate your interest" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • ahmedbingaminu07@freesurf.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ahmed Bingaminu" <ahmedbingaminu-17a@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:42:03 +0000
Subject: TREAT VERY URGENT

From The Desk Of Mr.Ahmed Bingaminu
Bill & Exchange Senior Officer
Foreign Remittance Department
Bank Of Africa (BOA)
770 Ave Sangoule Lamzana
BURKINA FASO


Good day,

I am the Bill & Exchange Senior Officer at the Foreign Remittance
Department, Bank of Africa ,Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.First and foremost,It
is my pleasure to contact you for a financial project. In unfolding this
proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected and honest person to handle
this transaction with sincerity, trust and confidentiality.

I discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,562,200,80 ( Ten Millions five
hundred sixty two thousand two hundred dollars and eighty cents ) in a
dormicillary($) bank account that belongs to one of our foreign customers
who was a successful general contractor with Ecowas but died along with his
entire family in a plane crash on the 19th July 2003.


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his near of
kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless
somebody applies for it as the family near of kin as indicated in our
banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed near of kin died
along-side with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claim.It is upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you to act as a near of kin to the deceased customer to enable
both of us claim this money for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it so that this money could not go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after Five years, the money should be reverted into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed or abandoned fund. The request for your assistance
and maximum co-operation as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

On smooth conclusion of the transaction,you will be entitled to fourty
percent (40%) of this money for your participation as my foreign partner
While sixty percent(60%) would be for me. There after I will come over to
your country for sharing and disbursement according to the percentages
indicated. I am one hundred percent sure of its success because all
logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for a smooth
actualization of the transaction.

I am looking forward to doing this business with you and do not need to
remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality that this transaction
demands. Please indicate your interest to assist me in this working
partnership using this alternative email (ahmedbingaminu07@freesurf.fr ) .I
will send you the detailed information of this pending project when I have
heard from you.


I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. AHMED BINGAMINU
Bill & Exchange Senior Officer

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