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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: ossyamac frank <ossyamac_frankoo15@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <ossyamac_frank1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:59:35 +0000
Subject: urgent and confidential.




FROM THE DESK OF MR ossyamac frank
MANAGER AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENTBANK OF AFRICA OUGADOUDOU BURKINAFASO.

I am Mr. ossyamac frank, Manager Audit Accounting Department Bank Of Africa (B.O.A). I would like to know if this proposal will be worth while for your acceptance.
I have a Foreign Customer,Andreas Schranner from Germany who is an Investor, Crude Oil Merchant and Federal Government Contractor that was a victim with Concord Air Line, flight AF4590 killing 113 peole crashed on 25 July 2000 near Paris leaving a closing balance of $28.6m in one of his Private US Dollar Account that is been managed by me as the Customer's Account Officer.
Base on my security report, these funds can be claimed without any hitches as no one is aware of the funds and its closing balance except me and the customer (Now Deceased) therefore, I can present you as the Next of Kin and we will work out the modalities for the claiming of the funds in accordance with the law. If you are interested, Please call me to discuss in further details and our sharing ratio will be 60% for me and 30% for you.while 10% will be for the naccasery expenciss that might occur along the line. Thank you, ossyamac frank
N.B.In other for you to beleive me honestly try and go through this (website)before you start with me. Below is the website. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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