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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mr Smith Oussou <mrsmithousou@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsmith.oussou@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:03:08 +0530 (IST)
Subject: FROM MR.SMITH OUSSOU .



FROM MR.SMITH OUSSOU .
MANAGER BILL AND EXHANGE UNIT OF
SOCIETY GENERAL DE BANK IN BURKINA (SGBB)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
 
URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION
 
I am the manager of the bill and exchange department of Society General de Bank in Burkina (SGBB) here in Ouagadougou the capital city of Burkina Faso.. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5M (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crashed near Paris (FRANCE) on the 25th of July 2000.
 
Please visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
 
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as it was indicated in our banking guideline and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crashed 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 you can stand as the beneficiary to the deceased customer and to enable the bank to release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased customer for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill because the banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
 
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe (an indigene of this country) cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner, and I agree that 45% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% 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 your designated bank account, you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that I will send to you, so, I will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication between each other and also about the location where the money will be remitted.
 
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application that you will use in claiming the money as the beneficiary to the deceased customer. I will not fail to bring to your notice 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. Thanks.

 
Truly Yours, MR.SMITH OUSSOU (SGBB).
 


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