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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 PAUL MADI <mrpaulmadi11968@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrpaulmadi501968@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 22:37:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.


My Dearest Friend,  







I am MR. PAUL MADI; the chief auditor in bank of Africa (boa) Burkina
Faso West African, One of our customers, with his entire family was
among the victims of plane crash and for more about the crash

you can visit the BBC web news forthetragedy.http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm>beforehis

Death, he has an account with us valued at $27.2million us
dollars(twenty seven million two hundred thousand us dollars) in our
bank and according to the Burkina Faso law, at the expiration of five
years if no body applies to claim the funds a grace of thirty (30) days
will be given before the money will revert to the

Ownership of the Burkina Faso government, my proposals is that i will
like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or distant cousin
for us to claim this money, so that the fruits of this old man’s labour
will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials who
will later use the money to sponsor war in

Africa and kill innocent citizens’ in the search for political power, As
a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into your account,
you Are entitle to 40% of the total money why 55%will be for me as the
moderator of this transaction and 5% is been mapped out for any
expenditure that may be incur during

The course of this transaction, Please note that there will be no
problem as my bank has made all effort through to reach for any of his
relation but all was fruitless. My position as the chief auditor in this
bank guarantees the successful execution of this (deal) transaction.
Send the following:



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. PAUL MADI.


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