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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: Kabore Issa <issa.kabore14@gmail.com>
Reply-To: issa.kabore14@hotmail.fr
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:02:25 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Urgent Message






Urgent Message
The Desk Of Mr Issa Kabore  (Esq).
The Head Of File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa. 

 
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE...http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

("REMITTANCE OF $10.5 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")
  
   Compliment Of The Season,
 
On
a very good day. I am ( Mr Issa Kabore ) The Head of file Department in
African Development Bank (ADB).I got your contact from Yahoo tourist
search. When I was searching for a foreign partner I assured of your
capability and reliability to champion this businees opportunity when I
prayed to God or Allah about you.



In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 10.5 million
U.S.A Dollars ( Ten. Five Million U.S.A dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in (Monday 31st July 2000) in a plane crash. 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 guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that
all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to
make this businness 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 fund.



The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered 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 Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be
set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be
for me and my woman colleague. There after i will visit your country
for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.



Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin
of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where 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 that 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 on my number , immediately as soon as you receive
this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.PLEASE REPLY TO MY
PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: issa.kabore1@hotmail.com
 
Your’s
Faithfully, 
 Mr Issa Kabore (Esq.)



POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the
transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will provide to
the bank.As you finished reading this letter call me immediately so
that we discuss very well over this business. 
 








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