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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: Issouf Usman <issoufusman@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:24:38 GMT
Subject: Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,


I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we never met before. I am Mr.Issouf Usman, the manager of Auditing and Accounting section of Bank Of Africa (B.O.A) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of U.S $10.5million US dollars, TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS in an account that belonged to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash in the year 2000.

Since we got information about his death, we 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 next of kin or a business associate to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash 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 the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin or a business associate to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

Since the bank law and guidline here stipulates that if such fund remained unclaimed the fund will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin. I agree that 50% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account and 50% would be for me and my Family.

There after I and my Family will come over to your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated and further investment under your kind control. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you account as arranged,you must apply first to our bank as a business associate or next of kin of the deceased person.

Please i will like this transaction to be strictly confidential between you and i Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you the official text application form which you will fill and send to the bank as the next of kin for the release and transfer of this fund into your designated bank account you provided.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer and given your 100% full assurance and risk free transaction.


Your Full Name...........................?
Your Sex.................................?
Your Age.................................?
Your Country.............................?
Marital Status......................?
Your Occupation..........................?
Your Personal Mobile N°...................?
Your Personal Fax N°......................?

Get back to me immediately with those informations i need from you so that i will send you the text of application which you will fill and apply to the bank as the next of kin.

Trusting to hear from you immediately,

Yours faithfully.
Mr Issouf Usman.

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