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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: Mr Malik Ashmaan <mr.malikashmaan@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mr.malik_ashmaan@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:43:15 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Please Read Carefully With Good Understanding!!!




Dear Friend,
 
With Due Respect, Take this Business Proposal as Emergency and Very Important, I am Mr.Malik Ashmaan an Auditor, with Accounting Department of ECOBANK,(PLC). Here in OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO. WEST AFRICA.

I crave your indulgence as i contact you in such a surprising manner. But I respectfully insist you to read this letter carefully with good understanding as I am optimistic it will open doors for unimaginable financial favour for both of us.
 
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of  Fourteen Million United States American Dollars.($14million dollars) only , in a dormant (in-active) account that belongs to one of our prominent foreign customer who died along with his entire family on 31 July, 2000 in a plan crash and his name is Christian Eich, 57yrs old, An engineer by profession,who ran carmaker BMW's museum, his wife and two children were also among the victims. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over to the Bank and claim his money because the Bank cannot release the Money unless somebody Applies for it as Next of kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his Supposed Next of Kin or Relation died along with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim of the sum of  Fourteen Million United States American Dollars.($14million dollars).
 
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business deal to you so that the money could be released to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and i don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. I Hoped that you will not expose or implicate me for giving you this informations..You are the Only Person that I have Contacted in this Business.... the Bank don't know my involement on this deal.
 
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as "unclaimed fund". The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business deal is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner Because I am a citizen of this country Burkina Faso . We agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me.
 
There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your norminated Bank as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name,Your bank account number where the money will be remitted, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication.
 
Upon receipt of your reply through my private email id:
(mr.malik_ashmaan@yahoo.fr),I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application.I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
 
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Or call my Private line immediately for more details,(+226-6510-1188).
 
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Malik Ashmaan.

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