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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: mike ouedrago <mr.almanasaadiq@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mikeouedrago980@yahoo.co.za
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:01:10 +0000
Subject: Waiting for your urgent response.

Dear Friend,
With due respect to your person
and much sincerity of purpose I make this contact with you
as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me. My
name is Sir. Mike Ouedrago from Ouagadougou Republic of
BURKINA FASO, West Africa. Presently I work in the Bank as
telex manager. I have been searching for your contact since
you left our country some years ago .

I do not know whether this is your correct email address or not
because I only used your name initials to search for
your contact in the internet .In case you are not the person
I am supposed to contact , please see this as a confidential
message and do not reveal it to another person but if you
are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether
you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because
it is top secret.

I am about to retire from
active Bank service to start a new life but I am skeptically
to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must
assure me that everything will be handled confidentially
because we are not going to suffer again in life.It has
been 10 years now 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. Their Political advisers always
inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so
I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds
hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much
was transferred as all the accounts used for such
transfers were being closed after transfer.

I acted as the Bank 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
because the money was too much for them to control. They
laundered over $300,000,000,00(Three hundred million) united
states Dollars during the process .As I am sending this
message to you, I was able to divert more than Ten
million five hundred thousand Dollars ($10.5m) to an escrow
account belonging to no one in the bank.

The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary
to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits
with the funds.It is more than Eight years now and most of
the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer
funds overseas. The Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($10.5m) has been lying waste but I don't want
to retire from the bank without transferring the funds
to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with
the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40%
for you.

There is no one coming to ask you about
the funds because I secured everything. I only want you to
assist me by providing a bank account where the funds can
be transferred. You are not to face any difficulties or
legal implications as I am going to handle the transfer
personally. If you are capable of receiving the funds,
do let me know immediately to enable me give you a
detailed information on what to do.For me,

I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other
people that took the whole money did not face any problems.
This is my chance also to grab my own but you
must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one
in the bank knows about the funds.Please supply me the
following:Your current contact address and Telephone
Numbers. I shall intimate you on what to do when I get
your confirmation and acceptance.If you are capable of being
my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.

Response me in my eail Address
mikeouedrago980@yahoo.co.za

Waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Mike
Ouedrago

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