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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "waiting for your urgent response" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: Traore Mohammed <soniatiendrebeogo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 00:44:27 -0200
Subject: Waiting for your urgent response today
Good morning to you and your family.
My name is Dr Traore Mohammed, the director of account and audit with the
bank, ECOBANK (www.ecobank.com) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in West Africa.
I am contacting you to seek your honesty and sincere cooperation in
confidential manner to transfer the sum of €8 400.000.00 (Eight million
four hundred thousand euro) to your company's bank account or even a new
bank account.
This money belongs to one of our bank client, a Libyan oil exporter who was
working with the former Libyan government; I learn t that he was killed by
the revolutionary forces since October 2011. Our bank is planning to
transfer his entire fund into the government public treasury as unclaimed
fund if nobody comes to claim the money from our bank after three years
without account activities by 2014.
I will endorse your name in the deceased account file here in the bank in
my department and this will indicate to the bank that you are the business
representative partner of the deceased client on a joint account business
partner before he died. I will personally assist here in the bank to make
sure that the bank to approve your claim and the fund will be transferred
to you as the legal beneficiary in accordance to our banking inheritance
claim regulation.
I will share 40% for you and 60% for me, we need to act fast to complete
this transaction within seven days. I will come to your country to collect
my share after the fund is transferred to your bank account in your
country. I hope that you will not disappoint m after the fund is
transferred to your bank account in your country.
Please I want you to send me your private phone number so that I can call
you to discuss more details on how we can proceed on this project
Waiting for your urgent response today
Yours sincerely
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