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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 Mohamed Abudo <mohamed_001@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:48:49 +0530 (IST)
Subject: VERY URGENT MATTER NEEDED



































VERY URGENT MATTER NEEDED
 
FROM MR.MOHAMED ABUDO,
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A),
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA-FASO.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Dear friend,
I know that this letter may come to you as a suprise. I got your contact address from the Internet when I was searching for a business partner.My name is MR MOHAMED ABUDO. I am the Bill and Exchange Manager of bank of africa (B.O.A) ,Ouagadouguo Burkina Faso.
 
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of ($25. Millions) (TWENTY FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS). I want to release the fund  to you as the relative to our deceased customer Late MR.CHRISTIAN EICH (the account owner) an engineer who ran carmaker BMW's museum, his wife and two children and his wife's parents were also among the victims in a plane crash of alaska airlines flight numberAF4590 which crashed on you shall read more about the crash on visiting bellow web site.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
 
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this businessproposals to you and release the money to you as next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it because I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I have agreed that 45% of this money will be for you as foreigner partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account.10% will be set asidefor expenses incurred during the business and 45% would be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.If you know that you are capability of doing this teansaction with me contact me through my contact E-mail,
 
mohamedabudo01@mysinamail.com
  
Allah blessing you and your family ( BARK ALLAH LAKOMA WABARK ALUKUMA), Insha Allah keep this as top secret Jazaakumullah for your email, Insha Allah....
Thanks.
 
Yours Sincerely.
 
MR.MOHAMED ABUDO.


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