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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 mallam mantu <mrmallammantu@sify.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: VERY URGENT


>From The Desk of Mr Mallam
Mantu
    The Auditing And Accounting Manager
   African Development Bank
(ADB)
   Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso.
     Telephone 00226 78 60 35 53

      Dear Sir/Madam      
 
I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I
know this may seem like a complete intrusion to your privacy but right about now
this is my option of communication. This mail might come to you as a surprise
and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but
please consider it as a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of
humility.
 
 I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach
to starting a relationship.I am Mr Mallam Mantu, the personal account officer to
the great late diseased who has an account in one of our banks here in Burkina
Faso . The account was opened in 2001 and he died in 2004 without a written or
oral WILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence the
money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing and Government of Burkina Faso will confiscate the funds
for their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen
being that this is a great opportunity for me.
 
My contact is for you to
please assist me to transfer the fund ($10.6000.00 USD) Ten Million Six Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars from a Cooperate Bank here in Burkina Faso to an
overseas account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I am
sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable us
transfer the said amount into your safe account for onward
investment.
 
You can either provide us with an existing account or to set
up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can
serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the
end of this important business trusting in you and believing that you will never
let me down either now or in future because this business is my life. The owner
of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account or
anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death
he was the manager of the company. My investigation through the National
immigration department & Ministries here proved to me as well that he was
single as at the time of his entry into the Republic of Burkina Faso . As a
matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment and
also to use my own share of the fund to take my wife to abroad for liver damage
treatment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary because the management of
the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct information to this account
which I will give to you immediately, if you are interested to do this business
with me. There is no risk in this business. With my position here in the bank
the money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for
sharing. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, I
am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a
local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct
information of the account, which I will provide for you. So you should provide
me with your correct account details where you will like the fund to be
transferred to, or you can set up a new account for the transfer even an empty
account is ok. At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 40%, 10% will be
for any expenses both parties incurred in the process of this business and the
remaining 50% will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong
assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your account I
will then send you the Text of application form which you will fill with your
banking information and send to my bank here for immediate transfer of the fund
to your account. If you are interested, please forward the following information
as below:
 
{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank
Name:............
{3} Bank Address...
{4} Account No:.........
{5}
Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ..........
{7} your
telephone Num. both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and fax
Numbers...
{8}
Your Occupation
{9} Your Valid ID.
Waiting for your urgent reply
confidentially at my private email address : (mrmallammantu@sify.com)
 
BEST REGARDS
Mr Mallam Mantu. 
 




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