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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: sulaiman umanru <umasulaman@sify.com>
Reply-To: sulaimanumanru@yahoo.cn
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:40:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear friend




 Dear friend,
I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a relationship.
I am Mr Sulaiman Umanru, the personal accounts officer to the great Late Mr. Andreas Schranner who has an account in  our banks here in BurkinaFaso.. The account was opened in 2005 of which i have been his personal account officer and he died recently in pakistan flood disaster without a written or oral WILL and  nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not transfer this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing to the Government of Burkinafaso this is the latest news in our bank now.
My contacting you is to please assist me to transfer the fund ($7.500 000.00 usd)
seven million five hundred thousand United State Dollars to  an oversea 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 in your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this 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 managing director of his company. My investigation through the National immigration department & Ministries here proved to me as well that he was a divorce as at the time of his entry into the Republic of Burkinafaso . As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investment.

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 to me your suggestion quickly
 
Best Regards,

Mr. Sulaiman Umanru
               
 
   

                             
 





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