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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 <mrpaulmadi21@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrpaulmadi501968@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:20:14 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE AND TRUST.




My Dearest Friend,





I am MR. PAUL MADI, The chief auditor in bank of Africa (boa) Burkina Faso WestAfrican, One of our customers, with his entire family was among the victims ofplane 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>beforehisdeath, he has an account with us valued at $27.2million us dollars(twenty-sevenmillion two hundred thousand us dollars) in our bank and according to the BurkinaFaso law, at the expiration of five years if no body applies to claim the fundsa grace of thirty (30) days will be given before the money will revert to theownership of the Burkina Faso government. My proposals that i will like you asa foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or distant cousin for us to claimthis money, so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into thehands of some corrupt government officials who will later use the money tosponsor war in Africa

and kill innocent citizens in the search for politicalpower. As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into youraccount, you Are entitle to 40% of the total money why 55%will be for me as themoderator of this transaction and 5% is been mapped out for any expenditurethat may be incur during the course of this transaction. Please note that therewill be no problem as my bank has made all effort through to reach for any ofhis relation but all was fruitless. My position as the chief auditor in thisbank guarantees the successful execution of this (deal) transaction. Send thefollowing:





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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