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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: "mr aziz moustafa" <mr_a_m1111@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mr_azizmoustafa2001@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:17:39 +0000
Subject: I NEEDED YOUR PARTNERSHIP.




From Mr.Aziz Moustafa.Bcb-Auditing & accounting Manager.
Banque Commerciale du Burkina.(BCB)Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Dear Friend, I am Mr.Aziz Moustafa.(Auditing & Accounting Mgr) at the Foriegn Remittance Department in BANQUE COMMERCIALE DU BURKINA (B.C.B),Oaugadougou-Burkina Faso.During my auditing duty in our bank, I discovered a Deceased Dormant account datas with a figure Balance amount of Seven Million and Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ( $7.200,000.00 USD only) belonging to a foreigner named; Mr. Kurt kahle from Germany,a deceased customer of our bank who was involved in a Plane Crash event of 2000:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.
The said fund is now ready for re-transfer to a foreign account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary next of kin to theDecaesed man. Since we got this information about his death,No body has ever come up as his next of kin to claim his money and he does not indicate his beneficiary inheritor to his account when he was alive and the bank management cannot release the fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin as stated in our banking laws.

But unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.Therefore upon this discovery that i decided to make this business proposal for you to stand as the next of kin/beneficiary to the deceased account to have the fund re-transfer into your bank account for your country.

And Our banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after EIGHT years, the fund will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner account. I therefore solicit and ask for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin to the account under my banking experience directive.Note 40% {$2.880,000 U.S.D}will be for you in respect your account provision for the claim and assistance in transfer exercise, while 60% {$4.320,000 U.S.D}would be for me. Be rest assured that this business is 100% legal and have no risk free on both side and every arrangement to transfer this money to the account you are going to provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and secrecy involved.
l am looking forward to your soonest reply. Yours faithfully,
Mr.Aziz Moustafa.
Mobile:0022676493353
Our Bank-site: http://www.bcb.bf/bcb_org.htm
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