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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: "adams abadi" <adamsabadi010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: adamsabadi@hotmail.fr
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:30:44 +0100
Subject: FROM:DR ADAMS ABADI


FROM:DR ADAMS ABADI
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A),
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA-FASO.

Dear friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a suprise. I got your contact
address from the Internet when I was searching for a business partner. My
name is DR ADAMS ABADI I am the Bill and Exchange Manager of bank of africa
(B.O.A) ,Ouagadouguo Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of USD$25. Million (TWENTY FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS).

In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his wife and children in a plane crash in a year 2000 plane crash
happened in america . Since we got information about his death, the bank
have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because
we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased,

as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all
his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I decided to make this business proposals to you and release
the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because I don't want
the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as foreigner
partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account.10% will be set
aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me,
after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated. Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours Sincerely,
Your¡s faithfully,
DR ADAMS ABADI

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