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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: ishee abu <isheeabuuu@googlemail.com>
Reply-To: ishee_abu33@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:53:25 -0400
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.

Mr Ishee Abu
The Manager of Audit & Account Department,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B.)
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

Dear Friend,
Please read carefully, This is secret and confidential.
I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account
dept of our bank, with due respect i decided to contact you over this
business financial transaction worth the sum of FIFTEEN MILLION, TWO
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ( 15.2Million usd ) in other to entrust this
fund into your bank account.
This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of our bank
customers who died along with his entire family on 25th July,2002 in a
plane crash disaster.
I was very fortune to meet the deceased file when i was arranging the
old and abandoned customers files of 2000-2001 in other to submit to
the bank managements accordingly for documentation purposes. Following
our banking financial policy, it was obviously indicated and signed
law fully that if such money remains unclaimed after five years
without somebody been a foreigner apply and claim the fund as the next
of kin , the money will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as an
unclaimed fund.
So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the
claim because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim
the fund since the law does not permit an indigene to claim such fund
Since the real beneficary of the fund is died , the bank are expecting
the next of kin to apply for the release of the fund for him or her
without delay but unfortunately i learnt through the investigations
which I carried out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim
the fund.
Therefore I want you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank
account details where our bank will transfer the fund into and
immediately the fund is transferred into your account ,i will share
the fund according to the percentage indicated below.
(50%) of the total fund will be for me, (40%) for you in provision of
the Bank account and assistance, while (5%) will be for unexpected
expenses which may occur during the transfer, and (5%) will be
preserved for helping the helpless people, like charity organization
and motherless babies.
Thereafter you will help me to visit your country for sharing the
money according to the percentage indicated above.
And for the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account
as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the only existing
next of kin to the deceased customer and after approval which will
take place immediately as you applied, the transfer of the fund into
your nominated bank account will proceed. Please note that you should
keep this business secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank
account which you will provide. And there is NO RISK in this business.
The bank will forward to you all necessary documents related to the
transfer and which will prove that you make a legal claim of
inheritance.
It is true that i pray to GOD before i was pushed forward to contact
you for this business but i want you to assure me solemnly that you
are a trsutwothy,reliable,honest and capable to avoid cheating me in
this business. If you are really sure of your integerity, Reply
immediatelly you receive this mail and call me on +226-763-791-01 for
more detailed information on how the process to transfer the fund into
your account will be. please contact me in this Email address;
ishee_abu11@live.com

Yours faithfully,
Mr Ishee Abu

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