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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: Salif Yacouba <salifyacouba@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sal_yacouba@blumail.org
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 21:40:20 +0000
Subject: From:Mr Salif Yacouba

From:Mr Salif Yacouba


Do you know that for the past 10 years now more than 95Million has
being diverted and stolen by some greedy and corrupt politicians by
the help of their influential and powerful colleagues who has help
them to launder and transfer this fund through our bank to the
Overseas? These funds were derived from the sales of Gold and Crude
oil and the fund was meant to be used for the development of the
Africa nations and the continent at large. As a banker working in the
Foreign Remittance Department, I want you to know that I have acted as
the Account Officer to most of these politicians,


So I have being involved and participated in the many financial
transfer transaction done by this corrupt politicians several times to
the Overseas. When I now discover that this politicians were using me
to achieve their aims by transferring this huge amount of fund through
our bank to the Overseas, I decided to use my opportunity as a top
bank official to divert the sum of 4.8Million to an Escrow Account
belonging to no one in the bank and then clean up the records and
files concerning this 4.8Million from our Bank's Computerize Data-base
Processing Financial Deposit so that there will be no trace of this
fund. Now the reason why I have contacted you is this; the bank's
management are now anxious to know who owns this account that has this
fund (4.8Million) because the bank has benefited and made lot of
profits from this fund for almost six years now. I need a trustworthy
and honest foreign partner that I will present to the bank as the
owner of the account having this said fund (4.8Million).


This is how we are going to do it, you will have to send your personal
information’s to me which I will have to program as the owner of the
fund (4.8Million) in our Bank's Computerized Data-base Processing
Financial Deposit, then later you will write to apologize to the
management of the bank and thereafter instruct the bank to transfer
the fund to you through the Automated Transferred Money (ATM) Visa
Card Account bearing your name. So, if you are interested kindly send
the following information to me immediately:


1). your full name (as it is written in your id card or passport).
.............................


2). your contact address with phone and fax
number...........................................
5). Marital status (Married or Single).
................................................................
3). your age. ...................................................................................................
4). Your Occupation..........................................................................................
Immediately I received this listed above information from you, I will
proceed to programmed this information’s in our Bank's Computerize
Data-base Processing Financial Deposit as the real owner of this fund
(4.8 Million) in the Escrow Account of the bank.


Yours sincerely


From:Mr Salif Yacouba

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