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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: ahmad8@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:00:05 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20ASSISTANCE=20IN=20TRANSACTION=2E?=

FROM THE DESK OF MR.AHMAD FARUG,
BILL AND EXHANGE UNIT
BANK INTERNATIONAL DU BURKINA(B.I.B)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION

I am the manager at the bill and exchange department at BANK INTERNATIONAL
DU BURKINA (B.I.B) here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.
In my department
we discovered an abandoned sum of US$18.2m dollars ( USdollars)in an account
that belonging to one of our foreign customer.Who died along with his entire
family in monday, 31 july, 2000 in a plane crash in paris.Please visit this
site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in other to swallow
the money at the end of the day,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery
that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law
and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after
seven years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed
fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 45% of this money
will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account ,5%will
be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be
for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according
to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer
of this fund to your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply first to the
bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application
that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone
and faxnumber for easy and effective communication and location where in
the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction
is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact
me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from
you immediately.

Please get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further. you canreach
me on my alternative emailaddress:(ahmadfarug5@yahoo.com)

Regards.
Dear p/s reply this email thanks
MR.AHMAD FARUG(B.I.B)





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