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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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Fraud email example:

From: Zida Zograna <bipratip.anarja@gmail.com>
Reply-To: zida.zograna44@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:18:37 -0700
Subject: Contact me urgently

Greetings My Dear Friend,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is
not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must
come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that
people meet and become great friends and business partners. Please I
want you to read this letter very carefully and I must apologize for
barging this message into your mail box without any formal
introduction due to the urgency and confidentiality of this business
and I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. Please
this is not a joke and I will not like you to joke with it ok,

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 Mr. Zida Zograna from Burkina Faso, West
Africa. I work in African Development Bank (ADB) as telex manager,
please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to
another person and 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 Banking service to start a new life
but I am skeptical 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 transferring 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 $5billion Dollars during the process.

Before I send this message to you, I have already diverted
($17.4million Dollars) 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 ($17.4million Dollars) has
been laying waste in our bank and I don want to retire from the bank
without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me
share the proceeds with the receiver (a foreigner). 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 reliable 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 to grab my own life
opportunity but you must keep the details of the funds secret to
avoid any leakages as no one in the bank knows about the my plans.

Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle
this project, I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear from your
confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted
associate, do declare your consent to me. I am looking forward to
hear from you immediately for further information.

Please note; reply me through this email (zida.zograna44@gmail.com),

Thanks with my best regards.

Mr. Zida Zograna .
Telex Manager
African Development Bank (ADB)
Burkina Faso.

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