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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: allyson max <maxallyson20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: allyson max <max.allyson@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:05:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Urgent


READ CAREFULLY ANDKEEP CONFIDENTIAL Good Day My Good Friend,

How are you doing togetherwith your entire family, I hope all is well? Please carefully read andunderstand my reason of contacting you through this email. I am Mr.Max.allyson. The Chief International Relationship Manager Foreign RemittanceUnit Ecobank (ECB). Ouagadougou Burkina - FasoWest Africa.

I want to contact you for avery beneficial business transaction. There is an abandoned sum of TwelveMillion Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars. ($12.5 Million) that wasdeposited by a late customer of this bank called Mr. Paul Wellstone.

A very prominent man who wasdoing business transaction with my bank here in Burkina Faso. He was a citizen ofUnited state of Americaand It’s was after my research that i realized about his death.

The bank has no knowledgeabout his death up to date. Upon this discovery that i decided to make thisbusiness proposal to you since the banking laws and guidelines here stipulatethat if such funds remain unclaimed here after 12 years years, the money willbe transferred into the Central Bank Treasury as unclaimed fund.

My stand to contact you now isthat, a foreigner has the legal right to put claim to such deposit whereby theproof is there. Therefore, I want you to apply as his business partner. Thistransaction is going to be a success because, a foreigner is compulsorilyneeded to present himself or herself as the next of kin to this deceased bankcustomer and hence the beneficiary of the fund because the fund depositor was aforeigner.

I therefore, desperately needyour assistance to claim and receive this fund into your account. For theassistance in this transaction, you will be entitled to have 40% of the totalfund in respect of the provision of your bank account and the assistance youare to render on the process.

55% would be for me as theoriginator and initiator of the transaction, and the rest 5% will be used tooff-set any minor expenses which may arise during the process of transferringthe fund into your account. I and my entire family will leave here immediatelyto your country when once the transfer is done.

Please Endeavour to keep thistransaction very secret and highly confidential because i will lose my positionif the bank authority here finds out that you and I are collaborating in this"Special transaction".

Please also be rest-assuredthat this business is 100% risk-free, and all the information and data's youwill need to make successful claim of this fund in the bank here are fullyready with me here.

Please urgently confirm yourwillingness and interest to assist me by producing and sending back to me theneeded information below and also call me when once you replied.
House Phone: 00226 71359636 Mobile: 00226 70568795.
1, Your Full Name :
2, Your Country :
3, Your Age :
4  Sex :
5, Date of birth :
6, Occupation :
7, Telephone Number :
8, Fax :
9, Private Email Address :

Thanks and best regards.
Mr. Max.allyson 

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