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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: Lambert Henri <lamberthenribf01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: lamberthenribf@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:30:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent and Confidential.Number+22670891719.


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THE DESK OF MR LAMBERT
HENRI.
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A.) BILL AND
EXCHANGE
DEPARTMENT,
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA-FASO.
PHONE NUMBER: +22670891719.

Dear Friend,

My Name is Mr. Lambert Henri,
the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of the BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A),
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

In my department we discovered an abandoned
sum of USD$9.3M (NINE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S.A DOLLARS). In an
account that belongs to this our foreign customer who died along with his wife
and children in the plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we
have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased, as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him in the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

The request of foreigner in
this transaction is necessary because our late customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. On the account of your
reliability and trust worthiness, I have decided to contact you in order to
transfer the said amount into your nominated bank account, its 100% risk free.
Upon receipt of the above mentioned I will send to you by E-mail a TEXT OF
APPLICATION which you shall re-type and send it to our foreign remittance
Department, for easy execution of the transaction.

All necessary
documents shall be obtained on your behalf to back-up this claims. Kindly
contact me on for security reason and for more explanations and possible means
of transferring the fund into your account. If you accept my offer I shall
compensate you with 40% of the money, 60% goes to me, after which we shall visit
your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.


Reply with the assurance, come up with the information's showed below:-


1)YOUR FULL NAME.......................... ..
2) YOUR
AGE...........................
3)MARITAL STATUS........................
...
4)YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER........................ ....
5)YOUR FAX
NUMBER........................ ....
6)YOUR COUNTRY.......................
....
7) YOUR OCCUPATION.................... ........
8)
SEX......................... ...
9) YOUR
RELIGION...........................
10) YOUR PRIVATE E-MAIL
ADDRESS....................... .....

NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION IS
CONFIDENTIAL.

Thanks for your assistance in advance.


Thanks,

Mr. Lambert Henri.
Call Phone Number (+22670891719).
Bill and
Exchange (assistant) Manager.

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