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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: "Mr. Mark Phillip" <mr_mark.phillip1@voila.fr>
Reply-To: daf_david12@hotmail.fr
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:18:20 GMT
Subject: FROM: ( MR. MARK PHILLIP.) PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPOND.

FROM: ( MR. MARK PHILLIP.) PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPOND.

Dear Friend,


I am Mr.Mark Phillip the manager of auditing and accounting at the foreign remittance

department of BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso . In my

department we discovered an abandoned sum of $12.5m us dollars (twenty seven million five

hundred US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died

along with his entire family.



Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come

very 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 guiding and laws but

unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side

with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.



It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to

you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for

safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this

money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.



The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after

ten years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The

request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the

customer was a foreigner and a Burkina indigene cannot stand as next of kin to a

foreigner.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign

account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be

for me There after, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the

percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you

arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased

with a claming form that I will send to you, so I will like you to send to me your

private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where

in the money will be remitted.



Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the

application. I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and

that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been

made for the transfer. You should contact me.



Immediately as soon as you receive this letter,

Trusting to hear from you immediately,

Yours Faithfully,

You are advice to fill the space bellow.



1. NAME IN FULL:...............................

2.ADDRESS:........................................

3.NATIONALITY:.................................

4.AGE:...............................................

5.Sex.................................................

6.OCCUPATION:................................

7. MARITALSTATUS:.........................

8.PHONE.............................................

9.FAX:....................................................



I will send you the details of this transaction as soon as I hear from you

Thanks, trusting to hear from you immediately with your contact information's.



(MR. MARK PHILLIP.) OF (B.O.A).

Thanks.

(MR. MARK PHILLIP

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