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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: Issa Adamu <issaadamu55@gmail.com>
Reply-To: issaadamu55@sify.com
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:28:17 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: CONTACTS ME FOR MORE DETAILS






















FROM THE DESK OF DR.ISSA ADAMU
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA
(B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager
of auditing and accounting department of BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$20.5m dollars (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand US dollars) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from Florida,
U.S.A) who died along with his entire family on November 1999 in a plane
crash.For more informations about the crash you can visit this site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it
unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws 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
now decided to make this business proposal to you,so that the money can be
release to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody will come for it and we don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed dormant fund.

The banking
law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed
after twlve years the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as
unclaimed dormant fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
like me can not stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I agreed that 40% of
this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account
,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would
be for me.Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin
to the deceased customer with a text of application that i will send to you,but
before i send to you the text of application form,I will like you to send me the
following informatios

1.NAME IN
FULL:................................
2.ADDRESS:.......................................
3.NATIONALITY:..................................
.
4.AGE:.............................................
5.Sex..............................................
6.OCCUPATION:......................................
7.MARITAL
STATUS:..................................
8.PRIAVTE PHONE
NO............................................
9.PRIVATE FAX
NO:.............................................
10.ATTACH COPY OF YOUR
IDENTIFICATION...........................

so i will like you to send to
me those informations for easy and effective communication.Upon receipt of your
reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application form.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 immediately as soon as you
receive this letter,if only you are intrested and ready to help. Trusting to
hear from you immediately.

DR.ISSA ADAMU
MANAGER AUDITING AND
ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
BANK OF
AFRICA

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