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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: Ibrahimsamba6 <ibrahimsamba6@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 10:06:34 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED PLEASE





FROM  MR  SAMBA  IBRAHIM


AUDITING / ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR
BANK 
OF AFRICA (BOA)
BURKINA  FASO 
  
Dear
Friend,
 
I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer
of a huge sum of money from a deceased account.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will
be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you due to the urgency of
this transaction. PROPOSITION; I discovered
an abandant sum of $11.5M(Eleven Million Five Hundred thousand United
states Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his
next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the
heir.
 I cannot release the fund from his account unless
someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines.

 
Upon thisdiscovery, I now seek your permission to have
you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be
carefully worked out by me for the funds $11.5M(Eleven Million Five Hundred
thousand United states Dollars) to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary's next of kin.It may interest you to note that I have secured from
the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries. 
Please acknowledge
receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual business endeavour by
furnishing me with the following;

 
1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax
numbers.
These requirements will enable me file a letter of
claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour
before the transfer can be made. I shall be compensating you with $4.9 Million Dollars on final conclusion
of this project, while the rest $6.6Million shall be for
me. 
 Your share stays
with youwhile the rest shall be for me for investment purposes in your
country.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage
of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent.
                                         
Best  Regards
SAMBA  IBRAHIM 
 

 
 



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