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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.Ahmed Kabore" <ahmed.kabore10@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmed.kabor10@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent and confidential message from Mr,Ahmed kABORE




FROM
MR.AHMED KABORE

ASSISRANT MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT.

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
(ADB)

OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

 

I know that this letter may come to
you as a surprise, I got your contact address from the computerized search. My
name is Mr Ahmed Kabore, I am the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of
Africa Development Bank Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

 

In my department I discovered an
abandoned sum of Eighteen million three hundred thousand United State of
American dollars (18.3MILLION USA
DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr Marutan
John Korovo from Jordan who died along with his family in aircrash since 1997.

 

Since I got information about his
death I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money
because we can not 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 business proposal
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 and I
don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

 

Am contacting you because our
deceased customer is a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as a next of kin
to foreign customer. The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should be
transferred into the bank treasury after 13 years if nobody is coming for the
claim. I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner
in respect to the provision of your account for the transfer, 2% will be set
aside for expenses that might occurred during the business and 58% would be for
me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage as indicated.

 

Please I would like you to keep
this transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that
I'm still a civil servant.As soon as I receive your reply i will give you the
full details of the transcation and is 100% risk free.

 

Yours sincerely,

Mr.Ahmed Kabore

 

 

 


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