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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 Desil Onal <desilonal400@voila.fr>
Reply-To: desilonal001@voila.fr
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:40:01 -0400
Subject: PLEASE CAN I CONFIDE IN YOU?



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Dear Friend,

I am Mr Desil Onal, Manager Auditing and Accountancy Department, Bank
of Africa
in (B.O.A) Burkina Faso. I got your email account while searching for
a business
oriented personality and you happen to be the one.

I bring forth a business proposal in the tune of Eight Million Eight Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars Only.($8.8M.US) to be transferred to an offshore
account with your assistance acting as beneficiary and next-of-kin to the
Inheritance funds.If you know you are capable of involving and
partaking in this
transaction, please send down the following personal details to me for
briefing
and more clarification;

(1)Full names:........................ .....

(2)Occupation:................ ..............

(3)Age and Sex:..........................

(4)Marital Status:..........................

(5)Private phone and fax numbers:..................

(6)Current residential address:..............

I am waiting for your urgent reply so that we will starts immediately.
Sorry if
you received this letter in your spam, Due to recent connection error
here in my
country.

Regards,
Mr Desil Onal.
+226 66 66 06 65

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