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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: Ali Mahmoud <alimahmoudbfaso3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <alimahmoudbfaso7@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:52:29 +0000
Subject: reply through my email address alimahmoudbfaso7@hotmail.com




Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Ali Mahmoud, the accountant personal confident to Dr.
Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr. Mrs. Manjula
Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to
attend wedding in Boston. Dr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a
physician and industrialist, he died without having any beneficiary to
his assets including his account here in Burkina Faso which he opened
in one of the Bank in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the
purpose of expansion and development of his company before his
untimely death in 2003. The amount involved is (USD 10,500,000.00) Ten
Million Five Hundred Thousand USDollars, no other person knows about this
account, I am contacting you for us to transfer this funds to your
account as the beneficiary,but I don't know any foreigner, I am only
contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved
to a local person here.

Reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently.

Kindly reply through my email address alimahmoudbfaso7@hotmail.com.

Yours Sincerely,

Ali Mahmoud

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