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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: ABUDULLAH <mr_abudullah6@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: a_2008_rahaman@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:36:28 +0200
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT


Dear Friend,

It is with Heartfelt of hope i write to you in this content Below,I know
that you will be very surprise to receive this mail from an unknown person
but i think is faith that decided it this way since we had not seen or met
from Adam.

I am Mr.Abudullah Rahaman,an accountant personal to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah who
died together with his wife Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the
1st Oct 2003 with all his suppose next of kin while on their way to attend
wedding in Boston.

Mr. Ravindra F. Shah is an American, a physician and industrialist who died
without having any body behind to claim his assets including his funds with
my Bank here in Burkinafaso valued sum of ($ 27,500.000.00 USD).I decided to
contact you in this business so that if you will be interested to provide an
account that will uphold this sum of ($ 27,500.000.00 USD) Twenty seven
million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) so that i will give you
text of application to fill and send to our Bank as the Beneficiary who is
ought to inherit this funds from the Deceased customer Mr.Ravindra F. Shah.

Listen no one knows about this funds existence expect me the personal
accountant to the deceased and all his information's is under my data disc
computer.you will apply to our Bank requesting that the Deposited funds
should be released to you if our Bank ask you any question about the
Deceased customer just email me i will give you an answer to send to
them.For this reason I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable an
existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive
this money even an empty a/c will serve to receive this funds immediately
what i need from you is 100% absolute confidential of the ongoing
communications.

Remember this money does not belongs to our bank but to our customer who is
now late and our Bank is gaining the interest of this funds since 2003 till
this very moment so fill free as we are not engaging to do illegal
Business.as <http://business.as/> you can see it is 100% risk free since i
have some information's that will convince our Bank that you are the real
sole Beneficiary to the Deposited funds.

I will offer you 40% of the total sum for your effort to just provide an
account and to apply as the next of kin to the Deceased customer our Bank
will quickly commence the release transfer of this funds as soon as you
reply me to indicates your readiness to co-operation with me.50% will mine
while 10% will be map out for any incurred expenses that may arise during
the cause of transfer.

Keep this communications only by your self as i do not want you to disclose
this transaction to any body around you this is for security purpose until
our Bank will finally effect the transfer of the funds to your designated
bank account.

I wait to hear from you if you are interested then responds view my private
but if you are not please i am very sorry and quickly delete this mail as
soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
Mr.Abudullah Rahaman

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