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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: Abdul Karim <abdul.karim.30@msn.com>
Reply-To: abdulk.arim920@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:22:38 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED

From the Desk of Mr. Abdul Karim
Manager Auditing & Accounting Dept
Africa Development Bank (ADB)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

Assalam Alaikoum,
I know that my mail may come to you as a surprise; please accept my apology if my mail does not meet your personal ethics.  Do not regard my mail/ letter as a fraudulent activity having received from the internet as it is the easiest and fastest means for me to reach you.  My name is Abdul Karim ; I am the Manager of Auditing & Accounting Department Africa Development Bank Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.  I am really convinced within my spirit and in my hearth that you will not betray this trust or expose this information's am about exposing to you for the mutual benefit of our both families.  I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $20.5 million United States dollars to your foreign account that you will provide to my bank.
 
             This money  was deposited  in our bank by a  foreign customer  for over 7 to 8  years, and  presently the  account is  dormant  due to nobody  is  operating  the accounts. From my  proper investigations, the owner of the account / funds is  a citizen of Germany  and he is a  Gold merchant  and  an  industrialist and was formerly  mining in Sierra Leone  where he based  before the war broke out there and he relocated to Burkina Faso.  From the recent information's I got before I decided to contact you for the claim of these funds, my bank top executives directors are secretly planning to move these money to the escrow account as unclaimed funds and share these money among them if nobody comes for the claim at the end of this fiscal month of April 2012.

Regarding my unsuccessful to locate  any  relatives of the deceased customer,  I am contacting  you  to put claim  over these money  as the nearest living relative to the deceased customer,  I  guarantee  that  with my positions in the bank,  I am capable  of filing out the claim in your favour till the money   enter into your  account   successful. But  please  if you are not interested, delete my  letter  and  do not disclose or discuss about the information's about these money  to any one to avoid lapses with my plans, I plead you  I have the intention to help the less privileged  ones  immediately the successful  transfer of these  money.  Take note that you will have 40% of the total mentioned sum if you agree to work with me.  Thank you, I will give you more details upon the receipt of your positive response.
Promise that this transaction will be done under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of the law.

Please If you are interested and wish to assist me please feel free to contact and send the following information's


1) Your full name...
2) Sex...
3) Age...
4) Country...
5) Passport or photo...
6) Occupation...
7) Personal Mobile number...
8) Personal fax number...
9) Home & office address...

Thanks,
Mr. Abdul Karim.









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