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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!

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From: "sani_moham@hotmail.com" <sanimohammed@mailbox.gr>
Date: 2 Nov 2009 10:57:30 +0200
Subject: DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY

FROM THE DESK OF SANI MOHAMMED
DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AFDB)
PLOT 12 DR. KWAME NKURUMA ROAD
OUGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.

My Dear Friend,

How are you doing today? I will explain myself a little to you before I continue. My name is SANI MOHAMMED. I am the DIRECTOR OF THE DEPATMENT OF INFRSTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY in AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. I am 42 years old. I hope you read this proposal carefully and reply me immediately. I know that we have not met before but this business transaction will bring us together.

We had a customer in our bank. His name was Mr. Christian Adams. He is from America . He is the foreign sales manager of the German wine fund. Mr. Christian Adams has been a customer of our bank for 4 years until his death. You can find the details of his death from the link below:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,62151,00.html

Mr. Christian Adams went to America for two vintage wines testing of all the managers of the German wine fund. He was unfortunately on board the Pennsylvania passenger flight that was high jacked by terrorist. He was a victim of the 11th September 2001 terrorist attack in America . When you get to the link the go to the section that has the heading:


The board of director and the management of the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK has mandated and instructed me to go and look for Mr. Christian Adams surviving relatives to come and claim his fund in our bank. Till date, I have been looking for any of his surviving relative to come and claim his fund he deposited in our bank. I have contacted the American embassy here in my country to enquire about his family. The ambassador at the American embassy here in my country told me that his wife and his two kids was involved in a ghastly motor accident some years back and they all died. This means that the whole family is gone. What a sad story. He used his wife as his next of kin when opening his bank account with our bank but now she is no more.

The reason why I contacted you is that Mr Christian Adams is dead and his wife who is his next of kin is also dead. There is none of his surviving relative to come for the fund. The board of directors and the management of this bank have told me that if nobody applies for the fund then the bank will return the whole fund into our federal reserve. I want you to apply to the bank as the only surviving next of kin to late Mr. Christian Adams. It might interest you to know that he has a domiciliary bank account with our bank. This bank account contains the sum of fifteen million dollars. This is the exact amount he has in his domiciliary bank account before the ugly incident occurred. This money is still in that bank account as unclaimed money. This business transaction is very simple and risk free. I am the DIRECTOR OF THE DEPATMENT OF INFRSTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY of this bank. The board of directors and the bank management are waiting for me to present the relative or next of kin to late Mr. Christian Adams. I told them that I am still searching for the next of kin to the deceased.

If you are interested, I will send you the application form to fill and send to the bank applying as the only surviving next of kin to late Mr. Christian Adams. I will back you by letting the board of directors and the management of the bank to know that you are the rightful next of kin to late Mr. Christian Adams. I will prove to them that you are the rightful person to inherit the unclaimed fund.

In respect to this transaction, we agree that 40% of this money will be for you as my foreign partner and for the bank account that you shall provide. The money will be transferred to the bank account that you shall provide.10% will be used to settle all our bills after the money has been received into your bank account.50% will be for me. I will travel down to your country after the money has been transferred into your bank account. We will use 10% of the money to settle all the expenses we incurred in this business transaction. Then we will share the rest according to the indicated percentages. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your bank account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank.

Your swift response will be highly appreciated.

Thanks and have a nice day.
Friendly regards

SANI MOHAMMED
DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AFDB)
PLOT 12 DR. KWAME NKURUMA ROAD
OUGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO



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