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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: "D.IBRAHIM BUBA" <ibrahim_buba1@voila.fr>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 14:46:45 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: HOW ARE YOU ?


My Dear Partner,
How are you today hope all is fine.

I am Dr. IBRAHIM BUBA, the Head of file Department in Bank of  Africa. I seek your assistance and I assured of your capability to champion this business opportunity to remit $15, million USD. Into your account. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me.

The depositor of the said fund died with his entire family,the depositor used his wife as the next of kin but unfortunately, the wife died along side with him leaving nobody for the claim. I don't want the fund to go into our bank treasury account as unclaimed bill.

As the Head of file Department,I will present you to my bank as his next of kin (COUSIN / RELATION) so that my bank will transfer the fund into your bank account. Then after the transfer of the fund into your bank account I will travel down to your country for the sharing of the fund.

If you are interested send me the following information, And if you are not willing to handle the transaction don’t border to reply me.


(1) Full Names:
(2) Residential Address:
(3) Country of Residence:
(4) Age:
(5) Phone/Cell Number:
(6) Occupation:

Regards,
Dr. IBRAHIM BUBA.



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