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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: "Mr.Maxwell Allyson" <maxallyson@outlook.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:55:28 +0100
Subject: I am Maxwell Allyson Get Back To Me Please.


=C2=A0
READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP CONFIDENTIAL

Good Day My Good Friend,

How are you doing together with your entire family, I hope all is well?
Please carefully read and understand my reason of contacting you through
this email. I am Mr. Max.allyson. The Chief International Relationship
Manager Foreign Remittance Unit Ecobank (ECB). Ouagadougou Burkina - Faso
West Africa.

I want to contact you for a very beneficial business transaction. There is
an abandoned sum of Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars. ($12.5 Million) that was deposited by a late customer of this bank
called Mr. Paul Wellstone.

A very prominent man who was doing business transaction with my bank here
in Burkina Faso. He was a citizen of United state of America and It=E2=80=
=99s was
after my research that i realized about his death.

The bank has no knowledge about his death up to date. Upon this discovery
that i decided to make this business proposal to you since the banking laws
and guidelines here stipulate that if such funds remain unclaimed here
after 12 years years, the money will be transferred into the Central Bank
Treasury as unclaimed fund.

My stand to contact you now is that, a foreigner has the legal right to put
claim to such deposit whereby the proof is there. Therefore, I want you to
apply as his business partner. This transaction is going to be a success
because, a foreigner is compulsorily needed to present himself or herself
as the next of kin to this deceased bank customer and hence the beneficiary
of the fund because the fund depositor was a foreigner.

I therefore, desperately need your assistance to claim and receive this
fund into your account. For the assistance in this transaction, you will be
entitled to have 40% of the total fund in respect of the provision of your
bank account and the assistance you are to render on the process.

55% would be for me as the originator and initiator of the transaction, and
the rest 5% will be used to off-set any minor expenses which may arise
during the process of transferring the fund into your account. I and my
entire family will leave here immediately to your country when once the
transfer is done.

Please Endeavour to keep this transaction very secret and highly
confidential because i will lose my position if the bank authority here
finds out that you and I are collaborating in this "Special transaction".

Please also be rest-assured that this business is 100% risk-free, and all
the information and data's you will need to make successful claim of this
fund in the bank here are fully ready with me here.

Please urgently confirm your willingness and interest to assist me by
producing and sending back to me the needed information below and also call
me when once you replied.

1, Your Full Name :
2, Your Country :
3, Your Age :
4=C2=A0 Sex :
5, Date of birth :
6, Occupation :
7, Telephone Number :
8, Fax :
9, Private Email Address :

Thanks and best regards.
Mr. Max.allyson.

=C2=A0

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