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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: Ahmed Kaberu <ahmedkaberu2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ahmedkaberu987@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:39:48 -0700
Subject: Good Day

Assalamu Alaikum,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business
relationship with you, I know this message will sounds very strange to
you, but I have no choice than to risk my life to choose a stranger
like you I have never seen before. We leave in a global world today,
and with the help of internet technology one can easily communicate
with one another all around the world without knowing him or she in
person, what matters will be the trust and the Information’s you got
about the person. In this case we can understand our self and work
like one family.

My Name is Mr. Ahmed Kaberu, the senior Auditor In charge of Foreign
Remittance Unit, Bank of Africa (BOA). I'm from Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso, West Africa. My reason for contacting you is to transfer an
abandoned $7.5M to your account. The owner of this fund died since
2003 with his Next Of Kin. I want to present you to the bank as the
Next of Kin/beneficiary of this fund.

Further details of the transaction shall be forwarded to you as soon
as I receive your return mail indicating your interest.

I will like you to provide immediately the below information's, to
enable me use it and get you next of kin application form from my
bank.

1. Full Name:......................
2.Full Address:...................
3.Telephone Number:...............
4.Country:........................
5.Profession:.....................
6.Age:............................
7.Sex:............................

By indicating your interest contact me through my private email
address ( ahmedkaberu987@hotmail.com ) I will let you know the next
steps and procedures and more details to follow in order to finalize
this transaction immediately and delete if you are not interested.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Ahmed Kaberu
Call me +226 78 02 92 12,

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