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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: Ibrahim Dawson <nancy29_dawson2000@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: Ibrahim Dawson <ibrahimmustafa001@voila.fr>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 21:54:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: VERY URGENT PLEASE!!!!!


Dear friend 
I
hope that you are well today. I am the Accounting Manager of BANK OF
AFRICA. With due respect, I decided to contact you over this business financial transaction worth the sum of $10. 2 Million dollars in other to entrust this fund into your bank account.

You
should note that this is an abandoned fund that belongs to one of our
customer from Lebanese who died along with his entire family on a plane
crash disaster with air France. I was very fortune to meet the deceased
file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customer’s files in
other to submit to the management accordingly fordocumentation purposes.

Following
our banking financial policy, it was obviously indicated and signed
lawfully that if such money remains unclaimed after SIX years without
anybody been a foreigner apply and claim the fund as the next of kin ,
the money will be transferred into the Government Treasury account as
unclaimed fund.

So my request of you as a foreigner is
necessarily for the claim because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come
forward to claim the fund since the law does not have a way for an
indigene to claim such fund. Since the real depositor of the fund died,
the bank is expecting the next of kin to apply for the release of the
fund for him or her.

Unfortunately i learnt through the
investigations which I carried out that there is nobody behind the
deceased who can come and claim the fund.
Therefore I want you to
apply to the bank with your reliable account data where the bank will
transfer the fund into, and immediately the fund is transferred into your account, we will share the fund according to the percentage ratio below.

Upon
the receipt of your reply or call me indication of your capability,
there is no risk in this business. With my position here in the bank the
money can be transferred to any account you can provide with assurance
that this $10. 2 Million dollars will be intact pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing. Upon successful transfer without any
disappointment from your side, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this $10. 2 Million dollars cannot be approved to a local person
here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has the correct
information of the account, which I will provide for you. So you should
provide me with your correct account details where you will like the
fund to be transferred to, or you can set up a new account for the
transfer even an empty account is ok. At the conclusion of the transfer
you will take 50%, in the process of this business and the remaining 50% will be for me. As soon as I hear from you and upon your strong
assurance that you will not let me down once the fund goes into your
account I will then send you the Text of application form which you
will fill with your banking information and send to my bank here for
immediate transfer of the
funds to your account.

If you are interested, please forward the following information to me as below:
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{1}. Full Names:
{2}. Home Address
{3}. City of residence:
{4}. Nationality:
{5}. Occupation:
{6}. Age:
{7}. Sex:
{8}. Mobile Number:
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Waiting for your urgent reply confidentially call me on my private mobile number bellow.

Yours
faithfully,
Mr.Ibrahim Dawson
bank Manager
My mobile; +22675239793

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