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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 Aziz <dribrahimaziz01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dribrahimaziz2@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:41:24 -0400
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?b?QVNTQUxBTVWSQUxBWUtVTSEhISEh?=



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
Abdoul Aziz, 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.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Ibrahim Abdoul Aziz

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
Abdoul Aziz, 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.

Waiting for your urgent response.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr. Ibrahim Abdoul Aziz

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