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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: Dr Ibrahim shorowa <dribrahim0002@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ibrahim_shorowa1@voila.fr
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 02:07:34 -0400
Subject: I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR YOU SINCE YOU LEFT OUR COUNTRY



ASSALAMU?ALAYKUM!!!!!


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
Dr.Ibrahim
shorowa, from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO , West Africa . Presently I
work in
the African development Bank as telex manager. I have been searching for your
contact
since you left our country some years ago.


I do not know whether this is your correct email address or not because I only
used
your name initials to search for your contact .In case you are not the
person I
am
supposed to contact, please see this as a confidential message and do
not reveal
it to
another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do 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 Bank service to start a new life but I am
sceptical
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 transfer 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 $5b Dollars during the
process .As I am
sending this message to you, I was able to divert thirty five million united
state
dollars ($35m) 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 ($35) Million Dollars has been
LAYING waste
but I
don't want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign
account
to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. 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 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 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 also to grab
my own but
you
must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no
one in the
bank
knows about the funds.



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,
you can call me with my privet telephone number for more details,+226 67 40 05
86.


Waiting for your urgent response.


Yours Faithfully,

Dr.ibrahim shorowa

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