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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 Habu Musa" <habumusa39@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: habumusa@live.fr
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:39:19 -0400
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR HABU MUSA

FROM THE DESK OF MR HABU MUSA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of auditing and accounting department of BANK OF AFRICA
(B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of($14m Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer(MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER FROM GERMANY) who died along
with his entire family on November 1999 in a plane crash.For more
informations about the crash you can visit this site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and 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. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you,so that

The money can be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody will come for
it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury asunclaimed
dormant fund.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after nine years the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed dormant fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin
in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe like me can not stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.

I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 60% would be for me.Thereafter, I will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore,
to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply
first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased customer with a
text of
application that i will send to you,but before i send to you the text of
application form,I will like you to sen me the following informations


1.NAME IN FULL:................................
2.ADDRESS:.........................................
3.NATIONALITY:.....................................
4.AGE:.............................................
5.Sex................................................
6.OCCUPATION:........................................
7.MARITAL STATUS:....................................
8.PRIAVTEPHONENO..............................................
9.PRIVATE FANO:.............................................

so i will like you to send to me those informations for easy
effectivecommunication.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email the text of the application form.I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer. You shouldcontact me immediately as soon as you receive this
letter,if only you are intrested and ready to help.

Trusting to hear from you immediately through my alternative email address:
habu_musa@voila.fr
Yours Faithfully,

Mr Habu Musa

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