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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: Ouedraogo NOUFOU <ouedraogo.nou@ok.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:06:33 -0700
Subject: YOUR PARTNERSHIP!!
I am Ouedraogo NOUFOU, from Republic of Burkina. I want to seek your assistance after my discovery during auditing in my bank as I'm the manager of Bill and Exchange in BANQUE ATLANTUE BURKINA FASO, (B.A FA).
We discovered an abandoned sum of $17.300.000 million in an account that belonged to one of our foreign customer (late). Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no response.It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my department to make this business proposal to you because he shares the same last name as yours and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement, and share it equally 50/50 after the transfer is made.
Thanks
Ouedraogo NOUFOU.
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