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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: mrabdus salam <abdus.salam10@voila.fr>
Reply-To: abdussalam10@voila.fr
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:11:33 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Very Urgent Please,































































































From Mr Abdus Salam,
Accounting and
auditing department
Africa Development Bank (A.D.B)
Ouagadougou,
Burkina-Faso.
Hello,

This mail
might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious
could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish and accept it
with a deep sense of humility.

I am Mr Abdus Salam, the manager in charge of
Accounting and auditing department of Africa Development Bank (A.D.B) with due
respect and Regard, I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that
will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the
transaction.

During our investigation and auditing in this Bank, my
department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our deceased
customer who died on Feb 29th 2003 of a ghastly motor accident and the fund has
been dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our
Custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this
development. Although personally,

And keep this information secret to enable the whole
plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution, the
amount is Nine million Three hundred thousand United States dollars (US$9.3
Million), as it may interest you to know,

I contacted you to be my partner and person to be
reliable and capable to champion a business of such magnitude without any
problem. So we can commence all arrangements and I will give you more
information on how we would handle this project. And also note that you will
have 40% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with
me. And 60% for me.
Please treat this business with utmost confidentiality
and send me the Following:

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and
mobile.
3)
Company name, position and address.
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) International
passport or ID card.
6) Account Information.
Regards,
Mr Abdus
Salam.

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