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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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Fraud email example:

From: Mr Emmanuel Akin <emmaakin@tlen.pl>
Reply-To: emmakin297@tlen.pl
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:45:53 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL DEAL




>From The Desk of Mr Akin Emmanuel
The Auditing And Accounting Manager
African Development Bank (ADB)
Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso.
Telephone 00226 74 35 16 73
Dear Sir/Madam

I sincerely ask for forgiveness for I know this may seem like acomplete intrusion to your privacy but right about now this is myoption of communication. This mail might come to you as a surpriseand the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into yourmind; but please consider it as a divine wish and accept it with adeep sense of humility.

I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach tostarting a relationship.I am Mr Akin Emmanuel, the personal accountofficer to the great late diseased who has an account in one of ourbanks here in Burkina Faso . The account was opened in 2001 and hedied in 2004 without a written or oral WILL and since 2004 nobodyhas operated on this account again hence the money is floating andif I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited fornothing and Government of Burkina Faso will confiscate the fundsfor their personal use which I personally don't want suchincident to happen being that this is a great opportunity for me.

My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer the fund($10.6000.00 USD) Ten Million Six Hundred Thousand United StateDollars from a Cooperate Bank here in Burkina Faso to an overseasaccount. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in thistransaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterlyconfidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability andreliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude. Isolicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount intoyour safe account for onward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up anew Bank account immediately to receive this money, even an emptya/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remainhonest to me till the end of this important business trusting inyou and believing that you will never let me down either now or infuture because this business is my life. The owner of this accountis a foreigner and no other person knows about this account oranything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary anduntil his death he was the manager of the company. My investigationthrough the National immigration department & Ministries hereproved to me as well that he was single as at the time of his entryinto the Republic of Burkina Faso . As a matter of fact, I havedecided to transfer this fund abroad for investment and also to usemy own share of the fund to take my wife to abroad for liver damagetreatment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary
because themanagement of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correctinformation to this account which I will give to you immediately,if you are interested to do this business with me. There is no riskin this business. With my position here in the bank the money canbe transferred to any account you can provide with assurance thatthis money will be intact pending our physical arrival in yourcountry for sharing. Upon successful transfer without anydisappointment from your side, I am only contacting you as aforeigner because this money cannot be approved to a local personhere, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correctinformation of the account, which I will provide for you. So youshould provide me with your correct account details where you willlike the fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new accountfor the transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclusion ofthe transfer you will take 40%, 10% will be for any
expenses bothparties incurred in the process of this business and the remaining50% will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strongassurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes intoyour account I will then send you the Text of application formwhich you will fill with your banking information and send to mybank here for immediate transfer of the fund to your account. Ifyou are interested, please forward the following information asbelow:

{1} Your Name/company's name and full address,
{2} Bank Name:............
{3} Bank Address...
{4} Account No:.........
{5} Swift Code...{if any}
{6} Account Holder's Name: ..........
{7} your telephone Num. both Home, Office & Cell/Mobile and fax
Numbers...
{8} Your Occupation
{9} Your Valid ID.
Waiting for your urgent reply confidentially at my private emailaddres.
(emmakin297@tlen.pl)

BEST REGARDS
Mr Akin Emmanuel.




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