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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: Michel Kabore <kaboremichel4@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:05:32 +0000
Subject: Bank Manager.

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.Michel Kabore, Manager Foreign Operations Department Bank Of Africa
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. I am contacting you based on my conviction that
you will be capable of championing this business cause.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m (Ten Million Five
Hundred Thousand USDollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family in an air crash in
the year 2005.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin, business partner or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in
the air crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I 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 for it and I
don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkina citizen cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

I wish to inform you that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, while the
remaining 60% would be for me. Thereafter I 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 a relation, business partner or next of kin of the
deceased indicating the bank where in the money will be remitted. Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send to you a text of application. I will not
fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch 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 you receive this mail,If you'r interested.

Best Regards,
Mr.Michel Kabore.

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