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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.Hemou Deddouh" <hemoudeddoh1@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:44:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I am waiting for your trust respond




FROM MR.HEMOU DEDDOUH
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,

Dear Friend,

How are you doing with your family? Hope fine, Please pay attention and understand my reason of contacting you today through this email, my name is Mr.Hemou Deddouh, as banker with position of Bill and Exchange Manager Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso. In my department, during the Auditing of the year 2008, I discovered an abounded sum of $17.300.000.00(Seventeen million three hundred thousand dollars) that belongs to our Late deceased customer

I desperately need your assistance to secure and move this fund left behind by my late client to the tune of $17.300, 000.00(Seventeen million three hundred thousand dollars) out of Bank into your own account. And these funds was transferred from FORTIES BANK AMSTERDAM HOLLAND to our bank here in Burkina Faso for the purchase of Gold, Diamond and Real-State from the Burkina Faso Mining co-operation which I was the account officer to the deceased customer before his death and know every process of his project here in my country.

1. Your Full Name:
2. Your Contact Cell Phone Number:
3. Your Age:
4. Your Sex/Status:
5. Your Occupations:
6. Your Country and City:
7. Your Full Home/Office Address:
8. A Copy of Your Passport SIZE:

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent email, and as soon as possible all these information's is submitted to me, I will immediately draft an application form with all your information's and send back to you, so that you will proceed with the transaction by sending the form to bank for the transferring of this fund into your account. I shall be compensating you with 40% on final conclusion of this project, while 50% will be for me and 10% will be for our any expenses that may come up. Your share stays with you while my own share shall be for investment purposes in your country.

Reply to my direct email address

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Hemou Deddouh





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