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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: "Mr Yacouba Adama" <yacouba_adama1@libero.it>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:16:01 +0100
Subject: GOOD DAY. WAITING FOR YOUR CONFIDENTIAL REPLY.


*Good day*

* TREAT URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
Please Read confidentiality. *

*My name is Mr Yacouba Adama,I am the auditing and accounting manager with
bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso . In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$10m dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from Florida , U.S.A) who died along
with his entire family on November 1999 in a plane crash. For more
information's about the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm*

**

*And there is no person that is coming for this dormart money that is why i
am contacting you to stand and make a claim of the money into your bank
account.*

* *

*We shall share in ratio of 40% for you and 50% for me while 10% for
expenses Should you please contact me urgently so we can commence all
arrangements and I Will give you more information on how we would handle
this project successfully and also you will abide to my instruction .Please
treat this business with almost confidentiality and send me the Following:*

*(1.) Full names.*

*(2) Private telephone and fax*

*(3)Residential adress*

*(4)Occupation*

*(5)Age and sex*

*I will send you my details of this transaction as soon as i hear from you
thanks, trusting to hear from you immediatelly with your contact
informations.
Kind Regards,*

*Mr Yacouba Adama*

*00226-78-358-108*

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