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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: Albert <albert_kafando@sify.com>
Reply-To: www.albertkafando@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:47:53 -0800 (PST)
Subject: How are you today...........?

















Dear Friend,
 
With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose I
make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to
me,  my name is Mr.Albert Kafando, from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO,
West Africa. Presently i work in the Bank as telex manager, please see this as a
confidential message and do not reveal it to another person, do let me know
whether you can be of assistance regarding to my proposal below because it is
top secret ,otherwise ignore and delect out from your mail box for security
reasons ok. I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life
but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger.

 
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially
because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that
most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder or siphon money
overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which
they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was
supposed to have been used to develop the continent.
 
Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts, so I also used the opportunity to divert part of
the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer. I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I
discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also
cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to
ask me because the money was too much for them to control.
 
They laundered over$5b Dollars during the process .As I am sending
this message to you; I was able to divert more than fourth Million Dollars
($40m) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious
now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of
profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the
politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The ($40m)
laying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the

funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the
receiver.
 
The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you .There is no
one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything. I only want
you to assist me by providing a bank account where the funds can be transferred
A bank account in any part of the world, which you will provide will then
facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary. You can send an
empty account to receive the funds, provided that the account is capable to
receive incoming funds. You are not to face any difficulties or legal
implications as I am going to handle the transfer personally. IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF RECEIVING THE FUNDS,DO LET ME KNOW
IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE ME GIVE YOU A DETAILED INFORMATION ON WHAT TO DO
OK. For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other
people that took the whole money did not face any problems.
 
This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details
of the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one in the bank knows about the
funds. Please supply me the following: Your current contact address and
Telephone Numbers. I shall intimate you on what to do when I get your
confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate,
do declare your Consent to me.
 
Best Regard’s
Mr. Albert Kafando
Telex Manager.
Bank Of Africa
(B.O.A)
 
 




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