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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: dawa so <dawa.so57@msn.com>
Reply-To: <mrgibson.dawa01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:20:26 +0000
Subject: REPLY BACK WITH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS, mrgibson.dawa01@gmail.com









































































ASSALAMU’ALAYKUM!!!!!


DEAR FRIEND

With due respect to your
person and much sincerity of purpose, I make this contact with you as I believe
that you can be of great assistance to me.
My name is Mr.Gibson Dawa,
from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO , West Africa .

Presently I work in the
Bank of africa Burkina Faso as telex manager. I have been searching for your
contact since you left our country some years ago.
I do not know whether this
is your correct email address or not because
I only used your name
initials to search for your contact .

In case you are not the
person I am supposed to contact, please see this as a
confidential message and
do not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do
let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because
it is top secret.

I am about to retire from
active Bank service to start a new life but I am sceptical to reveal this
particular secret to a stranger. You must assure me that everything will be
handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life.


It has been 10 years now
that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money
overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which
they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was
supposed to have been used to develop the continent.

Their Political advisers
always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used
the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there

is no official trace of
how much was transferred as all the accounts used
for such transfers were
being closed after transfer.

I acted as the Bank
Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me
to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records
from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much
for them to control.

They laundered over ($5b
Dollars) during the process .As I am sending
this message to you, I was
able to divert twenty five million united state dollars ($25m) to an escrow
account belonging to no one in the bank.

The bank is anxious now to
know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits
with thefunds.
It is more than Eight
years now and most of the politicians are no
longer using our bank to
transfer funds overseas.

The ($25) Million Dollars
has been LAYING waste but I don't want to retire from the
bank without transferring
the funds to a foreign account to enable me
share the proceeds with
the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you.


There is no one coming to
ask you about the funds because I secured everything. I only want you to assist
me by providing a bank account where the funds can be transferred. You are not
to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to handle the
transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving the funds, do let me know
immediately to
enable me give you
DETAILED information on what to do.

For me, I have not stolen
the money from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not
face any problems. This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the
details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no one in the bank knows
about the funds.

Please incase you are not
the right person that i wanted to contact, and
you have your interest and
you are capable to handle it, kindly get
back to me with the
following informations,

Full
Name....................
Home
Address.................
Age..........................................
Sex...........................................
Personal
Number......................
Fax
Number....................................
Receiving
Country...............................
Occupation..............................................

I shall intimate you on
what to do when I hear from your confirmation
and acceptance. If you are
capable of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.


Waiting for your urgent
response.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Gibson
Dawa.

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