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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: alin.musah01@terra.com
Date:
Subject:

FROM:MR ALIN.
Audit/Account Section.
African Development Bank.(A.D= .B.)
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso.

Dear Friend,

How are you to= day? Hope all is well. Please be informed that I have
decided to contact= you for a fund transfer transaction worth the sum
of US $ 9,300,000.00,= into your reliable bank account as the sole
NEXT-OF-KIN to the foreign d= eceased customer of our bank (an
International Billionaire French Busine= ssman) who was killed with his
entire family by PLANE-CRASH in Central E= ngland almost 5 years ago.
Since his death occurred, no body have show u= p as his next of kin for
the claim because the account is untraceable. U= pon the investigation I
carried out from his records, I found out that h= is foreign business
consultant who would have trace the account died ear= lier before the
deceased.

Therefore, this is a confidential and s= ealed deal. For the success of
this transaction, you should apply and ac= t as the only existing
NEXT-OF-KIN to the deceased which our bank will r= eplace the deceased
account information through proper documentation in = position of your
own account. This transaction is risk-free, it will nev= er harm your
good reputation in your society because no one can trace th= e account,
and on the instant of the transfer of the fund into your acco= unt, the
chapter of this transaction will be closed entirely.

Not= e that in a business of this nature, the bank don't want to know
your di= fference between the deceased country, religion or believe
because our b= ank inheritance law is against that. So, it is a
preference for us achie= ve this success without any problem.

Please note down that once the = fund get transferred into your account,
you will take 39% of the total s= um while the rest will be for me as I
will arrange myself down to your c= ountry to take my share. I need your
urgent response and include your pr= ivate telephone/mobile numbers for
easy communication.Please reply if yo= u can be trusted in this
deal.EMAIL:( alinmusah@yahoo.com).!!

Tha= nks,

Mr Alin.

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