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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: Blaise TALLAH <blaise.tallah@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: blaisetallah@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:51:26 +0100 (BST)
Subject: FROM MR BLAISE TALLAH.

FROM MR BLAISE TALLAH.
TEL +225 4453 8024.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE . (WEST AFRICA).


Dear Sir,

With due respect and humility, I write to you this proposal. I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of Banque Internationale du Abidjan. I am writing following the impressive information about you through my research in Internet search. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$8.5m US dollars (Eight million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but unfortunately we Lent that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth and we don't want this money to go into the Government treasury as unclaimed fund.

According to our Banking policies and guideline here which stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after 10 years, the money will automatically be transferred into the Government treasury as unclaimed fund? The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Ivorian cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 15% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be for reimbursement of any expenses in cured during the curse of the transaction and 80% would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you 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, your private telephone and fax number for easier and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, 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 risk 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.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,

FROM: MR BLAISE TALLAH.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER

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