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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: Alasane Ouattara <alasaneouattara70@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:51:20 +0000
Subject: Dr Alasane Ouattara.

Dear Old Friend,

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 Alasane Ouattara, from Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO,
West Africa Presently i work in the 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
the internet .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 handing 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 ($10.5M) 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 ($10.5M) 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 and 10% will be
set aside for expenses both of us might occur during the
transaction.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 a 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 leakages as no one in the bank knows about
the funds. Please supply me the following: Your current contact
address and Telephone Numbers. I shall intimate you on what to do when
I get your confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my
trusted associate, do declare your Consent to me through this.
Best Regard’s
Dr Alasane Ouattara.

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