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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: mrjbala@gmail.com
Reply-To: mrjbala1@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:00:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: BUT CAN I TRUST YOU FOR...




Greetings From Mr.Jackson Bala,

Dear Sir/Madam

I understand that through Internet is not the best way to link up with you
because of the confidentiality which my proposaldemands.

However, I have already sent you this same letter one month ago,but I am not
sure if it did get to you since I have not heard from you, hence i am
constrain to reach you through the Internet which has been abused over the
years.

I am Mr.Jackson Bala, the personal account officer to a great late
diseased who has an account in one of our banks here in Burkina Faso . The
account was opened in 2001 and he died in 2004without a written or oral WILL
and since 2004 nobody has operatedon this account again hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing and Government of Burkina Faso will confiscate the funds for
their personal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being
that this is a great opportunity for me and you.

My contact is for you to please assist me to transfer
thefund($13,500.000.00 USD) Thirteen Million Five Hundred ThousandUnited
State Dollars from African Development Bank here in Burkina Faso to an
overseas account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. I
am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a
transaction of this great magnitude.

Please indicate your interest immediately for us to proceed.I shall feed
you with full details of this transaction upon receipt of your reply towards
this proposal.

All the legal papers will be processed in your acceptance. In your
acceptance of this deal, we request that you kindly forward to us your letter
of acceptance;

1. Full name
2: Your private telephone and Fax numbers.
3. Occupations and Nationality.
4. Date Of Birth
5. Present Location
6. E-mail Address

To enable us file necessary documents at our high courtprobate division for
the release of this sum of money.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Mr.Jackson Bala


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