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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: "okadima_dick Gazeta.pl" <okadima_dick@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: okadima.dick@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:42:30 +0200
Subject: waiting to hear from you


MR OKADIMA DICK
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
ATTN:

This message might meet you in utmost surprise,However,Its just my urgent
need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this
transaction,I am a banker by profession from Burkina Faso currently holding
the post of a director auditing and accounting section of the bank.I have
the opportunity of transferring the left over fund($12.5 m USD) which
bellongs to one of my client who died along with his family in a plane
crash.

After further investigation it was discovered that the deceased person did
not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work
of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my
office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, twelve
million five hundred thousand united State Dollars is still lying in my bank
and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that
according to the laws of my country at the expiration seven years six
months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds.

My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to
instruct BOA BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving
relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with
you 60/30 while 10% will be mapped for expenses that may be incured in the
preoccess of transfering this fund into your account. That is: I will simply
nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We
share the procentange 60/30. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be
released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement
in claiming the deposit.

I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few
days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file
relating to the deceased person I will then officially communicate with my
Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is
done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.

I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard
this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer
is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.
Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may
not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of
comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a
criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be
hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I
make this move.

Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this
chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny.
These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if
you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do
not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them
with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task
well worth undertaking.

I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you
refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows
of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted
you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets share the blessing.

If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official
channels;

I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you
contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting
me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I
will provide for you, Further more be informed that the fact that you are a
foreigner give you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client
beneficiary as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with
him in a plane crash and I can not use my relation because its not accepted
here in Burkina Faso.

Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that
is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from the time been is
your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the nest one
weeks.

Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through
international banking laws and all the necessary information will be given
to you in later.I do not want any direct link between you and me. My
official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to
assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management
Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I
am a family man, I have wife and children.

I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained
and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is
the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray
my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.

Futher detailes of the transfer will be sent to you as soon as i receive a
positive response from you.
Thanks.
MR OKADIMA DICK

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