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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: USENI IDRIS <useni132@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <useni2008@uku.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:21:03 +0100
Subject: From Mr.Idris Useni.



Dear Friend,
First of all I want you to Know that this is not a scam mail.Because based on what is going on all over the internet world, people find it very difficult to believe things like this any more.If you can guarantee me from your own side, your trust,honestly I will be able to work with you.I will appreciate if you can come down your self and see things for your self before we proceed and this will make things clearer for you.

I am Idris Useni,an accountant with one of the local banks here, New African Development Bank Abidjan the Repoblic of Cote D' ivoire. I am contacting you on this business of transferring the sum of eight Million US$ (US$8 million) into a safe foreign account and it must be very confidential. I solicit your urgent assistance for the transfer of these funds into your Bank account. I wish to inform you that I discovered the said amount of money during our last audit work in the month of April 2005. Myself discovered this money belongs to one MR Kazu Bakayoko, a very rich farmer who died two years ago with Kenya airlines plane crash here in Abidjan. Mr. Bakayoko was on board with his entire family including his next of kin to his account since then nobody has come for claim these funds.

Please i don't want you to take it as if am trying to transfer another person's money to you, because i know that being a Muslim is against our religion but i decide to do this because if no body come for the claim of the fund the bank will move the fund into a government account, but i believe that if we can work together to transfer this money we can use it to help the mother less one and the need and use the balance for ourselves than to live the bank to block this fund. hope you will understand my position on this matter and give it better consideration so that we can achieve the goal.

I therefore solicit your assistance to come out as the next of kin to Mr. Bakayoko. As soon as you agree to do so, we will arrange all formalities to transfer the money to your bank account . Note that all the modalities of this transfer are RISK FREE. I want to make the following points clear for you so that you can have a better understanding of why we are contacting you. 1-As civil servants, we are not permitted to operate or own a foreign account while in office due to CIVIL SERVICE CODE OF CONDUCT. 2-My present financial resources will not be sufficient to process and procure all documents and formalities from varoius Ministries here, hence the need for a reliable foreign partner abroad is required for financial assistance as the case may be. 3-You will be forwarded as the next of kin of the fund. Your assisting percentage will be as agreed when you finally get back to us.

Best regards. Mr.Idris Useni.
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