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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: EMMANUEL AKIN <emmakin239@tlen.pl>
Reply-To: emmakin297@tlen.pl
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 03:48:09 +0100 (BST)
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 a completeintrusion to your privacy but right about now this is my option ofcommunication. This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation toignore it as unserious could come into your mind; but please consider it as adivine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.

I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting arelationship. I am Mr. Akin Emmanuel, the personal account officer to the greatlate diseased who has an account in one of our banks here in Burkina Faso .The account was opened in 2001 and he died in 2004 without a written or oralWILL and since 2004 nobody has operated on this account again hence the moneyis floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeitedfor nothing and Government of Burkina Faso will confiscate the funds for theirpersonal use which I personally don't want such incident to happen being thatthis 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 State Dollars from a Cooperate Bankhere in Burkina Fasoto an overseas account. First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in thistransaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. Iam sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute atransaction of this great magnitude. I solicit your assistance to enable ustransfer the said amount into your safe account for onward investment.

You can either provide us with an existing account or to set up anew Bankaccount immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve toreceive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end ofthis important business trusting in you and believing that you will never let medown either now or in future because this business is my life. The owner ofthis account is a foreigner and no other person knows about this account oranything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until hisdeath he was the manager of the company. My investigation through the Nationalimmigration department & Ministries here proved to me as well that he wassingle as at the time of his entry into the Republic of Burkina Faso.As a matter of fact, I have decided to transfer this fund abroad for investmentand also to use my own share of the fund to take my wife to abroad for liverdamage treatment. Your assistance as a foreigner is necessary
because themanagement of the bank will welcome any foreigner who has correct informationto this account which I will give to you immediately, if you are interested todo this business with me. There is no risk in this business. With my positionhere in the bank the money can be transferred to any account you can providewith assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival inyour country for sharing. Upon successful transfer without any disappointmentfrom your side, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this moneycannot be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to anyforeigner who has the correct information of the account, which I will providefor you. So you should provide me with your correct account details where youwill like the fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new account for thetransfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclusion of the transfer youwill take 40%, 10% will be for any
expenses both parties incurred in theprocess of this business and the remaining 50% will be for me. As soon as Ihear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me down oncethe fund goes into your account I will then send you the Text of applicationform which you will fill with your banking information and send to my bank herefor immediate transfer of the fund to your account. If you are interested,please forward the following information as below:

{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 email address .(emmakin297@tlen.pl)  


BEST REGARDS
Mr. Akin Emmanuel.
 

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