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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: shekewdrag5@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:33:13 +0200
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT


*FROM DR.SHAKE WADRAGO,

ATTN: FRIEND,
A CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL TREAT AS URGENT

Good day and compliment of the season.I deem it vital to contact you for a
business proposal based on my position as the accountant General of the bank
of
Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso .

During my QUATTERLY AUDITING/ACCOUNTING ,I discovered in a DOMICILIARY
ACCOUNT
favouring a foreign customer , the floating sum of US$15,000,000 (fifteen
million
Us dollars).

During my investigations on the abandoned sum, I discovered the owner as a
GERMAN
citizen named Mr.ANDREAS SCHRANNER who died in a plane crash with his entire

family and subsequently there is no next of kin to his account .Visit the
web-
site as posted dated .
**http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm*<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
*

Based on these factual statements, plus the available facts and figures in
the
bank archive ,we stand on a vantage point to putting up a claim on the
fund.
This providential mission is hinged on the fact that, it is only a
foreigner that
can successfully claim this fund since the late depositor was a foreigner
himself.

What you are required to do implicitly is to put up an application to the
bank as
his nominated next of kin by his extended family in GERMANY which is a
workable
approach because you will stand by the power of such nomination as his
cousin
resident in where you are today to claim this fund into your account for
both of
us.

Any question, information that may Be required by the bank during the
process of
the reclamation will be forwarded to you on demand as to ensure that this
venture
is successful. It is highly confidential and risk free by virtue of my
position as
an insider in the bank.

Finally, I shall give you 30% in respect of your assistance to get
transferred
this fund into your account oversea.I will release to you a detailed
information
covering the abandoned fund on your urgent reply.

DR SHAKE WADRAGO,
*
*


*

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