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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: "Mr. Maya Abutaf" <abutaf@consultant.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 13:48:09 +0700 (WIT)
Subject: Am waiting for your reply to transfer the fund to your bank
account.



Hi Friend,

I am Mr.Maya ABUTAF (Banker) Auditing Manager of Credit/Debit Unit in
Banque Commerciale Du Burkina (BCB), Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso. I contacted
you as regards to a business proposal that will be of an immense benefit
to both of us and the less privileged ones. Being the accounting manager,I
discovered a sum of $7.200,000.00 USD (SEVEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) Only in a Fixed Account belonging to one of our
foreign customers Late Mr. Moses Saba Masri. He was a Jewish business
mogul from Mexico that died on a helicopter crash early this year. Mr.
Saba was 47-years-old when both his wife, his only son Avraham (Albert)
and his daughter-in-law died in a helicopter crash.

You can get more information's as regards to this on below website
.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3832556,00.html

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages 50% to me and 50%
for you.Please provide me your full contact details:

Full names:
Address:
City:
State:
Country:
Age
Sex
Mobie number:

as we have 7 working days to run it through:Your assent to this e-mail and
business proposal will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Mr.Maya ABUTAF

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