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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: Nancy Kabore Laboso <nancykaborelaboso@gmail.com>
Reply-To: msklaboso@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:41:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: YOUR CONSENT IS URGENTLY NEEDED.


 
Hello My Dear

Good day to you. It is my pleasure to  contact you for a business venture which   I intends to establish in your country. I am  Nancy Kabore Laboso. Although I have  not met with you before but I believe you  will regard me as your friend and treat this message  urgently.

I'm (23) years, from Kenya in East Africa,  5.7 ft tall, Fair in complexion, Single  (never married before). My late mother, Dr  Kabore Laboso was the Assistant Minister  of Home Affairs. My beloved mother was  on board the Cessna 2010 aircraft , which  was heading to Jericho and crashed in a  remote area called Kalong’s, in Eastern  Kenya. The plane crashed on the Tuesday  10th, June, 2008, few months  after my  father was killed in the Kenya post  election violence of the same year.

After the burial of my mother, my aunty  and uncle conspired and sold my  mother’s properties to an Italian Gold  magnet which they shared the money  among themselves and left nothing for  me.

One fateful morning, I opened my  mother’s briefcase and found out the  documents which she have deposited  huge amount of money in one of the  comercial  banks in Burkina Faso with my  name as the next of kin, I have written to  the bank asking them to release the  money so that I can take care of myself  and start a new life, but the bank director  told me that my mother’s instruction to  the bank is that the money would only be  released to me when I am married or  present a trustee who will help me and  invest the money overseas.

I am writing to you in absolute confidence  to seek your assistance to transfer the  sum of eight million five hundred  thousand ($8,500,000.00) United State  Dollars USD  which my late mother  deposited in a bank in Burkina Faso.

Now I have decided to invest these money  in a country were there is no political  unrest because I don't want to experience  what I have passed through in the past  again. I want to transfer these funds for  investment in your country. That was why  I felt happy when I saw your contact  because I strongly believe that by the  grace of God you will help me invest this  money wisely.

You will take 25% of the total amount if  you can help me to manage this money,  another 15% as an annual interest to you  especially for securing the money for me  in a good business which you will have  absolute control over.

I am honourably seeking your assistance  in the following ways also (1) To serve as  a guardian of this fund (2) To make  arrangement for me to come over to your  country to further my education and to  secure a resident permit in your country.

I await your soonest response for more  details.

Yours Respectfully,
Nancy Kabore Laboso.

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