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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: "Ahmed Kabore" <ahmedkabore00012@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmedkabore43@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:19:55 +0000
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?(=A315,000.000.00)_Business_Transaction?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?,_Reply_Urgently.....................?=


>From the desk of AHMED KABORE,

Bill & Exchange Manager,

(ADB) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso.



Hello,

How are you doing with your entire family? Hope fine, My name is AHMED
KABORE working with AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.
During one of our periodic auditing, I discovered a dormant accounts with
holding balance of (£15,000.000.00) {Fifteen million British Pounds
Starlings} this account has not been operated for the past years. As at this
moment, I am constrained to issue more details about this business until
your response is received.



I will be happy to work this deal out with you if you have cooperated or
personal Bank Account and if you are capable to keep TOP SECRET and
CONFIDENTIAL towards this deal. I need strong assurance that you will never
let me down, if I transfer this money to your account, and If you know that
you are capable & reliable to handle this business transaction, call me on
00226 78896261 and more details will be send to you after receiving your
full call/ reply and Details below: -


1, Full names
2, Private Cell phone number,
3, Current residential addresses.



Meanwhile, for your smoothness of this transaction, I will offer you 50% of
the total sum of (£15,000.000.00) for your co-operation in this business
transaction, while 50% will be my own shear which is 50%/50% equal.

Kind Regards
Mr Ahmed Kabore.

Phone 00226 78896261.

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