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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: nelson yakubu <nelson_yakubu@yahoo.dk>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 06:51:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: I NEED A RLIABLE CONTRACTOR


 MR NELSON SALAM YAKUBU
The Executive Director of the Central Bank
Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou

Hello Dear'Friend,

As explained to you above, my name is MR NELSON SALAM YAKUBU,the new Director of
the Central bank Burkina Faso . I was instructed by our New Government
to pay all our

owed foreign contractors/inheritors who have not yet receive their funds
because of one reason or the other. In the process of paying the
beneficiaries, I came across a fund file valued the sum of US$40 Million as an
unclaimed funds that has no beneficiary neither next of kin.

My reason of contacting you today is to seek for your assistance to enable me
transfer these funds into your bank account and I will offer you 40% of the
total amount for your assistance, while 55% is for myself then 5% is for any
expeness you and i will make in case. I want to inform AND YOU WILL BE CALLING
ME ON PHONE AND I WILL ALSO CALL YOU TOO

you know that i will use my money and position to perfect all the approval transfer
documents of this fund in your name  as the legal and the rightful beneficary
of this fund before transferring this fund into your chosen bank account.
It is 100% risk free but requires much trust from you as I will not like to be
disappointed after receiving it into your account. Please contact me on this

my private email with your private telephone number including your occupation
and your account details for this transaction because of the confidential
nature of this deal;This deal will only take four banking working days the
fund will transfer to your account,that is more reason if you know that you
are not capable do not reply me

then your duty which is the only thing you will do is to arrange your self and come
down to sgin all the approvers documents which i will arrange everthing in your name
with the lawyer who will stand on your behalf,the truth is this as you are going to
be the beneficary of the fund you must come and sgin, if only you will promise me
that you will be able to come down to sgin the releases of the fund in your name,
I will send you more details after hearing from you positively

Regards

MR NELSON SALAM YAKUBU

NB,RELPY ME HERE  nelsonyakubu1@yandex.com

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