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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: "Mrs .Rahab Ali" <rahabali@mail.ru>
Reply-To: "Mrs .Rahab Ali" <alirahab@voila.fr>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 10:13:02 +0900 (JST)
Subject: DEAR FRIEND,


FROM THE
DESK OF MRS RAHAB ALI
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER
GROUP BANK OF AFRICA OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA
FASO.(BOA).

DEAR FRIEND,

I am the bill and exchange manager at FOREIGN
REMITTANCE DEPT, In my department I
discovered an abandoned sum of U.S $6.5m US dollars, in an account that belonged to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash. Since we got information
about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or a
business associate to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside
with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now
decided to make this business proposal to
you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin or a business associate to the
deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after Eleven years the money
will be transferred into the bank treasury as
unclaimed fund which will end any time if
nothing is done.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 35%
of this money will be for you as a
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be
for me and my Family. There after I and
my Family will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated and for some
possible investment under your kind control.
Therefore, to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as a business associate or next of
kin of the deceased person.

Please i will like this transaction to be
strictly between you and I upon receipt
of your reply, I will start by giving to you the application which you will fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
risk-free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this mail, Trusting
to hear from you immediately,


Yours faithfully
Mrs. Rahab Ali

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