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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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Fraud email example:

From: Badaru <baderuamor@gmail.com>
Reply-To: baderuamor@voila.fr
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:41:56 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Dear Friend,




Dear Friend,
 
Greetings to you and your family, i am Mr Thompson Yadraogo chartered chief auditor with United Bank Of Africa Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West Africa, I got your contact address from your country through online directory. You’re impressive and managerial records made me to solicit for your partnership in these regards. I have a business of 15.5 Million Euro. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers.
 
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the fund hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.
 
I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I decided to clean some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.
 
They laundered over (60 Million Euro) during the process .As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro( 15.5M) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is, because they have made lots of profit with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The(15.5Million Euro) has been lying fallow but I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver.
 
However I advise that we use method of ATM Visa Card for this operation because it falls under my department of which I can properly monitored. Moreover the money will be transferred through ATM visa card transfer to help us from unnecessary questioning in your country and to prevent unnecessary tax by the government of your country.According to my ration after we get the fund the money will be shared 50% for me and 40% for you while 10% for all the expense incur the processing, am assuring you that there is nobody coming to ask you about the funds now or in future because I secured everything. If you are ready for these deals do get back to me so that I can give full details and on how to apply to our bank as the real owner of the said fund.

Chartered chief auditor

Mr Thompson Yadraogo.

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