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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: Dr Beside Zawyet <dr.beside_zawyet11@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: dr.besidezawyet1@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:10:56 +0800 (CST)
Subject: =?big5?B?QVNTQUxBTVWhpkFMQVlLVU0hISEhIQ==?=




ASSALAMU¡¦ALAYKUM!!!!!

DEAR FRIEND

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose, I make thiscontact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me. Myname is Dr Beside Zawyet shorowa, from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO ,West Africa . Presently I work in the African development Bank as telexmanager. I have been searching for your contact since you left our country someyears ago.

I do not know whether this is your correct email address or not because I onlyused your name initials to search for your contact .In case you are not theperson I am supposed to contact, please see this as a confidential message anddo not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, dolet me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below becauseit is top secret.

I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I amsceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must assure methat everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going tosuffer again in life.

It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used ourbank 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 goldand oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent.Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreignaccounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I amaware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all theaccounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.

I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I discoveredthat they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some oftheir banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me becausethe money was too much for them to control. They laundered over $5b Dollarsduring the process .As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divertthirty five million united state dollars ($35m) to an escrow account belongingto no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary tothe funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds.

It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer usingour bank to transfer funds overseas. The ($35) Million Dollars has been LAYINGwaste but I don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the fundsto a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. Themoney will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you.

There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything.I only want you to assist me by providing a bank account where the funds can betransferred. You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I amgoing to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving thefunds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you DETAILED information onwhat to do.

For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other people thattook the whole money did not face any problems. This is my chance also to grabmy own but you must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakagesas no one in the bank knows about the funds.

Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this projectI shall intimate you on what to do when I hear from your confirmation andacceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare yourconsent to me.

Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Beside Zawyet.

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