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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 Mourad Osong <mrmouradosong@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mouradaosong01@rediffmail.com
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 04:13:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE




My Dear Friend, 

I am Mr. Mourad Osong The chief auditor in bank of Africa (boa) Burkina Faso West African. One of our foreign customer, MR PAUL LOUIS HALLEY, who died along with his entire family in July 2003, was among the victims of plane crash in Paris, (France) and before his death, he has an account with us valued at US$10.5million dollars (Ten Million Five hundred thousand U.S Dollars) in our bank and according to the Burkina Faso law, at the expiration of years if no body applies to claim the funds a grace of thirty (30) days will be given before the money will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Faso government.

My proposals is that i will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or distant cousin for us to claim this money, so that the fruits of this old man’s labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials who will later use the money to sponsor war in Africa and kill innocent citizens in the search for political power.

As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into your account, you are entitle to 40% of the total money why 55% will be for me as the moderator of this transaction and 5% is been mapped out for any expenditure that may be incur during the course of this transaction. Please note that there will be no problem as my bank has made all effort through to reach for any of his relation but all was fruitless.

My position as the chief auditor in this bank guarantees the successful execution of this (deal) transaction.

In acceptance the following information stated below are required:

1) Your age:
2) Your full name
3) Your house address:
4) Your marital status:
5) Your occupation/Profession:
6) Your direct telephone:
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Thanks. 
MR. MOURAD .A. OSONG  

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