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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: Alex Yacouba <mralex.yacouba_alex19561@aol.fr>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 20:39:05 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: HELP TO TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCCOUNT."{US$4.5M DOLLARS}" -Reply
(alex.yacouba001@gmail.com)

Good day,

Thanks you for reading my mail and I am contacting you concerning a
customer and an abandoned huge amount of money placed under our banks
management years ago, I contacted you independently of my investigation
and no one is informed of this communication and I would like to
intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to
you and me and the family in future.

My name is Mr Alex Yacouba, I am in the Auditing and Accounting Manager
with Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.In my department i
discovered an abandoned sum of (US$4.5M DOLLARS) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from
Florida, U.S.A) who died along with his entire family on November 1999
in a plane crash.

This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim,and I
don't want the money to go into the Reserve Bank of Burkina Faso
(RBBF), as an abandoned fund. So
this is the reason why I contacted you so that the bank can release the
money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer.

Please I would like you to keep this transfer as a top secret between
me and you alone ok. I promise you that i will direct you on how this
transfer will go successfully if only you can abide to my
instruction.Upon receipt of your reply I will give you full details on
how the business will be done.

Kindly send me this information below to have trust in you that you
would betrayed me after the sucess.

(1.)Your full name...
(2)Your address...
(3)Country..
(4)Age...
(5)Occupation...
(6)Private telephone number...

l will send you the details of this transaction as soon as i hear from
you thanks, trusting to hear from you immediately with your contact
information,

Reply me with this email adress for quick respond(
alex.yacouba001@gmail.com).

My regards.

Mr Alex Yacouba

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