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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: Dr Idrissa Ahmed <dr.idrissa_ah@sify.com>
Reply-To: dr_idrissa@sify.com
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:38:26 +0530 (IST)
Subject: From: Dr Idrissa Ahmed






Dear
friend,



it will be a surprise for you to receive this mail, welcome this letter. i am
(dr. idrissa ahmed), the director of the accounts & auditing dept, at the
bank of africa burkina faso ouagadougou- west africa.




With due respect i have decided to contact you on a business transaction that
will be benefit both of us. at the bank's last accounts/auditing evaluations,
my staffs came across an old account which was being maintained by a foreign
client who we learnt was among the deceased passengers of an airline crash on
6th nov 2002.



Since the deceased was unable to run this account since his death. The account
has remained dormant without the knowledge of his family since it was put in a
safe deposit account in the bank for future investment by the client. since his
demise, nobody, not even the members of his family have applied for claims over
this fund and it has been in the safe deposit account until we discovered that
it cannot be claimed since our client foreign national and we are sure that he
has no next of kin here to file claims over the money. As the director of the
dept, this discovery was brought to my office so as to decide what is to be
done. With the few personnel in my dept, we decided to seek ways through which
to transfer this money out of the bank and out of the country too.



The total amount in the accounts is (us$7.5m) without positions as staffs of
the bank, we are handicapped because we cannot operate foreign accounts and
cannot lay bonfire claim over this money. while we were contemplating on what
to do, a friend of mine who works with the chamber of commerce and industry
recommended your personality to me advised i should ask you for help to
transfer this money out of the country. the client is a foreign national and
you will only be asked to act as his next of kin and i will supply you with all
the necessary information’s and bank data to assist you in being able to
transfer this money to any bank of your choice where this money could be
transferred into.



i and my partners have decided to give away forty (40%) to you for your
assistance and ten (10%) for any expenses that might arise during the
transaction of this transfer. we want to assure you that this transaction’s
absolutely risk free since we work in this bank which is why you should be
confident in the success of this transaction because you will be updated with
information as at when desired. kindly fill this below information so that i
will use them to process next of kin application form, which you will fill and
send to my bank for the transfer.

________________________________________________________________ 

 

estimado amigo,

 

será una sorpresa para que usted reciba este correo, la bienvenida a esta
carta. yo soy (el dr. ahmed idrissa), el director del departamento de auditoría
de cuentas y, en el banco de áfrica burkina faso áfrica uagadugú-oeste.

con el debido respeto, he decidido contactar con usted por una transacción
de negocios que se benefician tanto de nosotros. en las últimas cuentas del
banco / las evaluaciones de auditoría, mi personal came a través de una cuenta
antigua que estaba siendo gestionada por un cliente extranjero que aprendimos
fue uno de los pasajeros fallecidos de un accidente en avión 06 de noviembre
2002.

dado que el fallecido no ha podido ejecutar esta cuenta desde su muerte. la
cuenta ha permanecido inactiva sin el conocimiento de su familia desde que se
puso en una cuenta de depósito seguro en el banco para futuras inversiones por
parte del cliente. desde su desaparición, nadie, ni siquiera los miembros de su
familia han solicitado créditos en este fondo y ha sido en el fuerte de la
cuenta hasta que descubrimos que no se puede afirmar ya que nuestro cliente
extranjero y estamos seguros de que no tiene los familiares de las demandas de
archivo que aquí el dinero. como el director del departamento, este
descubrimiento fue llevado a mi oficina a fin

de decidir qué se va a hacer. con el poco personal en mi departamento,
hemos decidido buscar la manera a través del cual la transferencia de este dinero
del banco y fuera del país también.

el importe total se contabilizan (ee.uu. $ 7.5 millones) sin cargos como
funcionarios del banco, que están en desventaja porque no pueden operar cuentas
en el extranjero y no poder hacer valer hoguera sobre este dinero. mientras
estábamos contemplando en qué hacer, un amigo mío que trabaja con la cámara de
comercio e industria se recomienda que su personalidad me aconsejó que me pides
ayuda a transferir esos fondos fuera del país. el cliente es extranjero y sólo se
les pedirá que actúen como sus familiares y yo le facilitará toda la
información necesaria y los datos bancarios para ayudarle a ser capaz de
transferir este dinero a cualquier banco de su elección cuando el dinero puede
ser transferido a.

yo y mis socios han decidido regalar cuarenta (40%) a usted para su
asistencia y diez (10%) para los gastos que puedan surgir durante la
transacción de esta transferencia. queremos asegurarles que esta transacción es
absolutamente libre de riesgo ya que trabajamos en este banco por lo que usted
debe tener confianza en el éxito de esta transacción, ya que se actualizará con
la información como en cuando se desee. por favor llenar esta información a
continuación para que los utilizará para el siguiente proceso de las solicitudes
de los familiares, que deberá completar y enviar a mi banco para la
transferencia.

 

Full
name........................

home address...........................

age................................

Sex.......................................

personal number...........................

fax number.................................

receiving country............................

occupation.............................



I need your urgent response to enable us proceed further for the transaction.

Thanks and remain blessed.



You’re faithfully

dr idrissa ahmed.







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