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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: Vitor Gaspar <vitor_gaspar5@voila.fr>
Reply-To: vitor-gaspar5@voila.fr
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:50:25 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Urgent Please,!!



From Mr Vitor
Gaspar,
Accounting and auditing department
Africa Development
Bank(A.D.B)
Ouagadougou,
Burkina-Faso.
Hello,
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the
temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind but please
consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility,I am Mr
Vitor Gaspar, the manager in charge of Accounting and auditing department of
Africa Development Bank (A.D.B) with due respect and Regard, I have decided to
contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us
at the end of the transaction.
During our investigation and auditing in this
Bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our
deceased customer who died on Feb 29th 2003 of a ghastly motor accident and the
fund has been dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the
fund in our Custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to
this development, Although personally, and keep this information secret to
enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of
execution, the amount is Saven million Three hundred thousand United States
dollars (US$7.3 M), as it may interest you to know.
  I contacted you to be
my partner and person to be reliable and capable to champion a business of such
magnitude without any problem, So we can commence all arrangements and I will
give you more information on how we would handle this project. And also note
that you will have 40% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this
business with me. And 60% for me.
 Please treat this business with utmost
confidentiality and send me the Following:

1)Your full name.
2)Phone, fax and mobile.
3)Company name,
position and address.
4)Profession, age and marital
status.
5)International passport or ID card.
6)Account
Information's.
Best Regards,
Mr Vitor Gaspar.

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