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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: Yezo Ahmedou <yezoahmedou@voila.fr>
Reply-To: jubrilyezo@rocketmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:55:54 +0000
Subject: From:Director General-AAD ,kindly reply immediately

FROM: DR.AHMEDOU J.YEZO
DIRECTOR GENERAL-AAD
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AFDB)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO
WEST AFRICA.

Dear Friend,
I am Dr.Ahmedou J.Yezo, Director General Audit and Accounting
Department (AAD) of the above Financial Institution here in my country
Burkina Faso ,West Africa .

MY MAIN PURPOSE OF CONTACT :-
I have in my position the total sum of $33.5 million U.S dollars
only which i want to transfer to your bank account .And also Gold
worth sum of $8 million U.S dollars .I discovered this total fund in
my department in the account that belongs to one of our bank late
foreign customer who died in the year 2006 .And also the Gold worth
sum of $8 million dollars which he deposited with the management of
our bank .The late customer was a contractor and gold dealer before
his death .

And during the process of general auditing ,I discovered that he
deposited this total fund and gold with the management of our bank
without the name of his next of kin and without the consent of any
body from his country .And since the past years of his death ,no body
has ever applied to the management of our bank for the claim of this
total money and gold he deposited before his death .I am quite sure of
what am telling you .

So please ,i want this money and gold to be released to you ,so that
we can share this money and gold for our own good .Instead of allowing
it to enter the National Treasury Account (NTA) as an unclaimed fund
.And i don't ever want this money to enter the NTA .Because if i did
not do this deal with you ,if other top officials later claimed this
money and gold ,they will eat it alone and it will not benefit the
poor masses .I want you to know that i have already decided that you
and me is going to use part of the money to help our brothers and
sisters in the societies that needed help .But we can do this if you
accept ,because only me can not decide on what to do with the money .

Please ,you should not be afraid of anything in this project
;because am in the better position to let this money be transferred to
your bank account and also the shipping of the gold to you without any
problem .And i have planned very well for the complete successful of
this my project before contacting you .So please ,don't be afraid of
any thing in this project .

And i want you to know that i have decided and agreed in the
following share ratios with you ,that 45% of the money and gold is for
and 55% for me .Because am the one that will take care of the expenses
in order to make sure that we received this money and gold
successfully as i planned and without any problem .

Please ,kindly reply immediately through this my private e-mail
address : jubrilyezo@rocketmail.com
so that i will know your decision and the next thing to do without retardation .

Yours Faithfully,
DR.AHMEDOU J.YEZO .

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