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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: Mr Abdul Salam <mr.abdulsalam22@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrabdulsalam66@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:12:22 -0800
Subject: Assalamualikum-with due respect.!!!

Dear Friend,
Greetings to you and your family.

My name is Mr. Abdul Salam, the current Chief Auditor of a formidable
bank here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, I have a business worth of 7.3
Million dollars to transfer into your account for our mutual benefits.

I need your total and 100% cooperation and assistance to realise this
task. Further details about the fund, its source and the
administrative procedure to transfer this fund into your receiving
bank account shall be made known to you immediately as I have your
positive response.
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially as I
am assuring you that we will never suffer again in life if we can join
hands to make this deal a success. It has been over 15 years now that
most of the greedy African Leaders are using our bank to laundered
money into their various overseas counterparts through the help of
their Political advisers.

Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa
were realized from selling of gold crude oil and other mineral
resources, these are the funds meant for the development of our dear
continent Africa and their various Nations being taken away for their
greedy and selfish ambition.

Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transferred into 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
transactions were being closed after transfer.
I as the major Account Officer to most of those politicians and the
then Foreign Remittance Dept Director of the bank, when I discovered
that they were using me to succeed in their greedy invents, 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 $890 Million Dollars during the process.

As I am sending you this message, I have the ability to divert Seven
Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7.3M) into an escrow account
belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who
the beneficiary to this fund is because they have made a lot of
profits with the funds. It is more than Fifteen years now and most of
the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds
overseas.

The $7.3 Million Dollars has been lying fallow and 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 any question whatsoever about the funds because I secured
everything. Further details shall be mailed to you if only you show
any sign of seriousness.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Abdul Salam

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