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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: hamza hamed <hamzahamed1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 20:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY




















 
From The Desk of
Dr.Hamza Hamed
Audits & Accounts Dept
Bank of Africa
Ouagadougou
Burkina-Faso,


Dear Friend

I am Dr Hamza  Hamed  a banker with this bank (BANK OF AFRICA).Burkina Faso.

I am in search of a reliable partner that will assist me with a bank account as to transfer the sum of USA$11,300,000 Million Dollars into and subsequent use the money for investment in properties in your country.

 
I need your total and 100% cooperation and assistance to realise this task.
Further details about the fund, its source and how to transfer this fund
into your receiving bank account shall be made known to you immediately I
have your positive response. You must assure me that everything will be
handled confidentially as I am assuring you that we will never suffer in
again in life if we can join hands to realise this deal.
 

You will be required to:-
(1) Assist in the transfer of the said sum
(2) Advise on lucrative areas for investment
(3) Assist me in purchase of properties.

If you are willing to assist me in this transaction, your share will be 40% of the total amount transfer. We shall be considering several sectors with our main focus on Government Bonds, Property Development, Loan and Equity Financing for small and medium sized companies.

This abandoned sum of money belongs to one of our foreign customer who died without any nomination of the next of kin to the bank, and Has Been Dormant for Years in Our Bank without Claim. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking policies but unfortunately for years now non of his relations has applied for the claim.
 
The bank is anxious now to know who is the beneficiary to the
funds because they have made a lot of profits with
the funds.

Upon your reply I will send you full details on how the business will be executed.  If you are interested and in position to guide me towards this noble and sensitive project, I will appreciate to have you as my trusted partner to invest and manage this fund. Send me your contact information as follow .

1) Name.....................
2) Nationality........................
3) Occupations ............................
4) Residential addresses ........................
5) Ages...........................
6) private telephone numbers. .....................



Waiting to hear from you soonest.

Thanks.
Dr.Hamza Hamed
Audits & Accounts Manger
Bank Of Africa Burkina-faso Tel +226-78-68-1112



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