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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: ibrahim_bashiru <ibrahim_bashiru@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:01:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT RESPOND

















FROM MR.IBRAHIM BASHIRU
BILL AND EXCHANGE
MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICAN (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA
FASO.

 
Dear Friend

I sourced your email from a human resource profile
database in the chamber, I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of Bank of Africa (BOA) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

 
In my department we
discovered an abandoned sum of US$14.5million dollars in an account that
belonging to one of our foreign customer.Mr Christian Eich who died along with
his entire family on Monday, 31 July, 2000 in a plane crash in Paris. Please
visit this site that is one of the evidence.
 
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 we cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines 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 and release the money to you as the next
of kin or relation to the deceased 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.

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 cannot stand as next of kin to
a foreigner.

I agree that 30% of
this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account,
10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% 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 and location where in the
money will be remitted.
 
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email the text of the application. 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. You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

(FILL THIS INFORMATIONS)
1. YOUR FULL NAME

2.
AGE.............
3. OCCUPATION.......

4. FAX..............
5.
TELEPHONE........
7. COUNTRY..........
 
Trusting to hear from
you immediately.
MR. IBRAHIM BASHIRU

Bill and exchange manager,
Bank Of Africa
(BOA) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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