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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: mrs maryam compaore <maryamcompaore222@ziza.ru>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:44:38 +0400
Subject: from Mrs. Maryam Compaore.


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Dear friend.

Greetings to you and your family, I am the
manager of bill and exchange in THE BANK, I have a business of 5.5 Million
United State Dollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your
country, if you are ready to assist me get back to me, I will give you full
details on how the fund will be transfer to you.

Be rest assured that
everything will be handled confidentially because, this is a great opportunity
we cannot afford to miss, as it will make our family profit a lot.

It
has been 6 years ago, that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank
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 gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop
the continent.

The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of
the fund worth five million five hundred united state dollars I told you about
and I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as
all the accounts used for such transfers of fund at that particle time were
closed after transfer.

I am the account officer to most of the
politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their
greedy act, I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and
no one cared to ask me for the money was too much for them to control, as I am
sending this message to you, I was able to divert five point five Millions
Dollars ($5.5M)which is in an escrow transit account belonging to no one in the
bank, and now my bank is very anxious to know the real beneficiary of the funds
is for they have made a lot of profits with the fund.

It has been more
than five years ago and most of the politicians are no longer in power again and
they don’t use our bank to transfer funds overseas anymore since their tenure
had expired.

The $5.5 Million United State Dollars has been lying in the
bank as unclaimed fund and I will soon retire from the bank immediately the fund
is transfer into your account over there.

Immediately the fund has been
successfully transfer into your account I will come to your country for the
sharing of the fund, the fund will be shared 50% for me and 40% for you, and the
other 10% for the orphanages home and poor with less-privilege
people.

Please know that there is no one that is going to question you
about the fund if you will comply with me and follow my instruction which will
help us a lot to achieve this goal for everything is well
secured.

Please indicate your interest in this transaction by replying
back and if you are not interested do not waste your time to reply kindly delete
my message from your box ok.

Waiting to hear from you
soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Maryam Compaore.

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