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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: Bello Mohmoh <bellomohmoh@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bellomohmoh@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:49:07 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR BELLO




FROM THE DESK OF MR. BELLO MOHMOH

AUDITS & ACCOUNTS DEPT

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Ouagadougou Burkina Faso



IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR YOU 

 

Dear ,



I am the Director in charge of Auditing section Africa Development Bank( A D B.) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
in West Africa . Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a
surprise. AS IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW, I GOT YOUR IMPRESSIVE INFORMATION
THROUGH THE INTERNET SEARCH HERE IN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.



I have decided to contact you on a project that will be very beneficially to
both of us. During our auditing in this Bank, I came across some amount of
money belonging to a deceased foreigner who died with his wife and their only
daughter on 7th of Novermber 2002 in a plane crash.The fund has been dormant in
his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody from
his relation before my discovery to this development. He was a contractor here
in my country Burkina faso as road builder but his nationality is American.

 

The said amount is U.S $10.5million (TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS). FOR YOUR INFORMATION BEEN YOU NOT A America WILL NOT POSE ANY
PROBLEM FOR THE SUCESSFUL TRANSFER ON THIS FUND INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. All the whole
arrangement to put claim over this fund as the Bonfire next of kin to the
deceased has been put in place and directives will be relayed to you as soon as
you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me in this great

 

Business opportunity. The actual reason why i contacted you is because it
required a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin to
the Bank and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be
re-transferred into on his request.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin. I don’t want this money to go into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. Be assured this transaction is 100% risk free.


 

On conclusion of this Project, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as
gratification, while 60% will be for me. Please you have been advised to keep
top secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service
after I conclude this deal with you. Please keep this proposal secret, even if
you don’t want to assist

I look forward to receive your urgent reply

.

Yours faithfully,

 

Bello  Mohmoh.

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