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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 Kafando Boureima <kafandoboureima@voila.fr>
Reply-To: kafandoboureima@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:51:04 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: A need of a foreign partner, please reply urgent.




Dear Friend.

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business  venture which I intend to establish in your  country.  Though I have not met with you before but I  believeone has to risk confidence to  succeed  sometimes in life. And I hoped that you will not expose  or betray this trust and  confident that I am about to  repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both  families.  Presently I am the Manager Incharge of  Auditing section of the bank, but about to retire from   active Bankservice to start a new life.

But I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a  stranger, During ourauditing in our  Bank, I came  across some abandoned fund sum of(US$12.5 Million  dollars) laying in wait here  in the bank, and when I  carried out my investigation I find-out that the fund  belong to our late  deceased customer whodied with  his entire family in Iraq War since 2006, leaving  nobody for  the claim.

The fund has been dormant (in-active) for years in our  Bank here without anybody coming for  the claim I  want the bank to release the fund to you as  thenearest person to our late  deceased customer  (the owner of the account) who died a long with his  supposed next of  kins in Iraq war since 2006 I don't  want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an   abandoned fund, so this is the reason why I contacted  you, so that my Bank will release the  fund to you as  the nearest person to our late customer, This is a  genuine business  transaction only I cannot operate it  alone with out using a Foreigner according to the  laws  guiding our bank, that is why i am contacting you  in this manner to help me stand before my  bank as the  beneficiary to claim this fund and my bank will release the fund into your bank  account.

Please I want you to keep this proposal as a top  secret for yourself and. Upon receipt of your  reply, I  will send you full details on how the business will  be executed and also note that you  will have 40% of  the above mentioned amount ifyou agree to execute  this transaction with  me.

Thanks.
Mr Kafando Boureima

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