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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: Dr Frank Saidu <drfranksaidu2009@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: drfranksaidu@blumail.org
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:22:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE



Dear friend,

I know
that this letter may come to you as a surprise, I got your  contact address from
the computerized search. My name is  Dr Frank  Saidu. I am the Bill and Exchange
(assistant) Manager of Africa Development Bank(ADB) Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of ten million four 
hundred thousand United State of American dollars (10.4
MILLION USA DOLLARS ) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer Mr Kurt Kuhle from Alexandra Egypt who died along with his family in 
Siber airline that crashed into sea at Isreal on 4th October 1997.

Since
I got information about his death I have been expecting his next  of kin to come
over and claim his money because we can not release it  unless somebody applies
for it as the next of kin or relation to the  deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines, but unfortunately we  learnt that all his supposed next of
kin or relation died alongside  with him in the plane crash leaving nobody
behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided
to make this  business proposal to you and release the money to you as next of
kin  or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement  since
nobody is coming for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury
as unclaimed bill.

Am contacting you because our deceased customer is a
foreigner and a  Burkinabe can not stand as a next of kin to foreigner
customer.

The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should be
transferred into the bank treasury after 13 years if nobody is coming for the
claim.

I have agreed that 33% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner in respect to the provision of your account for the transfer,  2% will
be set aside for expenses that might occurred during the  business and 65% would
be for me, after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentagesindicated.

Please I would like you to keep this
transaction confidential and as a top secret as you may wish to know that I am a
bank official..

Yours sincerely,
Dr Frank Saidu.



 

 


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