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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: Sani BONNI <s_bonni@voila.fr>
Reply-To: Sani BONNI <mrrgmd1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:48:54 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear Good Day To You!!!!


Greeting to you from Mr.Sani  BONNI,
Date: 03/12/2014

Good day friend,
I am sending this mail to you base on your information I got from the foreign affairs of Burkina Faso for financial business transaction that may benefits both of us worth the sum of $9.7 Million USD.

Actually, I believe that you will be in a position to assist me to transfer the abandoned floating funds into your reliable bank account in your country. The fund belong to a deceased foreign customer of this bank and it has been lying in a suspense account so may years in this bank without anybody coming to put claim over the money.

Therefore, the banking rules here and stipulates that if the total funds of ($9.7 Million  USD) remained unclaimed after one year then the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed funds.

Moreover, nobody come for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. Upon this discovery I decided to contact you to work on it so that the total funds worth ($9.7 Million USD) will be releasing to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased customer for safety.

Hence this mail to you, if you are really sure of your trustworthiness then contact me for the business and do not disappoint me when the fund is transferred into your account.

I will be waiting to read from you soon.
Thanks,
Mr.Sani Bonni.  
Senior auditing and accounting section,


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