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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: Issaka Kabore <kaboreissa01@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 01:07:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: From: Mr. Issaka Kabore


From: Mr. Issaka Kabore



Country: Burkina Faso



Occupation: Professional Banker



Position: Senior Staff In File Department,



African Development Bank (A.D.B)



Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso



 



                           With Due Respect Call Me +226 78 30 06 70.



 



 



Hello Dear,



How are you doing? With hope all is alright.



Please treat this message strictly confidential and do not be surprise
over this unexpected and sudden communication to you. I got your contact
from a reliable international directory where I decided to choose you
as to assist me pull into your account the sum of Five Million, Six
hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($5.600, 000.00) from our bank.



 



The beneficiary of this account died (May his soul rest in peace) with
his family 6 years ago in a Kenya Plane Crash 2003, and no body were
officially interested to stand for the claim as the next of kin.



 



Therefore, I need your attention and trust so we can make a two man deal
in order to move this fund to your account and once the fund is
transferred into your account, every chapter of this deal will be
sealed. Before we can achieve this successfully, you should apply to our
bank as the business partner/extended relative to the deceased.
Nevertheless, I will use my good office to ensure that my bank granted
urgent approval for the release of this fund to you immediately.



 



Hence the fund is released; I will resign quickly to join you over there
in your country for disbursement of the fund. I will tell you what will
be your share on your response to this message and we have to start the
process immediately to avoid our bank to send the fund to central bank
of Burkina Faso as an unknown beneficiary and unclaimed fund.



 



NOTE// You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this
letter, and also call me on my privet phone number +226 78 30 06 70, for
more information’s,



Trusting to hear from you immediately.



 



Yours truly.



 



Mr. Issaka Kabore.



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