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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 Abu Ali <abu.ali11@aol.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 13:56:43 -0500
Subject: URGENT



Greetings to youand your family my good friend, I am the manager of bill and exchange in theAFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B) in Burkina Faso, I have a business of $2.3million dollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your country,if you are ready to assist me get back to me I will give you full details onhow the money will be transfer to you.

You must assure methat everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going tosuffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy AfricanPoliticians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of theirPolitical advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shoresof Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used todevelop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amountsbefore transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divertpart of the funds hence I am aware that there is no of facial trace of how muchwas transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closedafter transfer.

I acted as theAccount Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they wereusing me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their bankingrecords from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money wastoo much for them to control. They laundered over $69 Million dollars duringthe process, as I am sending this message to you; I was able to divert ($2.3million dollars) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bankis anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they havemade a lot of profits with the funds.

It is more thanEight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transferfunds overseas. The $2.3 million dollars has been lying waste but I don't wantto retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account toenact bled me share the proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared60% for me and 40% for you .There is no one coming to ask you about the fundsbecause I secured everything, I want to let you to understand that beforeI contact you I have pray and Almighty God direct me to you, this moneyis coming to your account without any delay, do not be afraid allarrangement has been made to secure this money and safely deliver to youraccount as the owner, no institution will poke nose, promise me when thismoney is transfer into your account you will not betray me. My address is:No.120 Airport road, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

(i) Your fullnames and contact address.
(ii) Your companyname if any.
(iii) Your privatetelephone numbers.
(iv) Your Country.
(v) Your age
(VI) occupation.

As soon as Ireceive this information I shall pest your name and information as the owner ofthe account and later I will forward you the account number for the claim,but you must keep this details of this funds secret from anyone to avoidleakages as no one in the bank knows about the funds. Waiting for your urgentresponse if you are ready to assist me to transfer this fund into your bankaccount, get back to me immediately with this direct e-mail address :(mrabuali08@gmail.com).

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Abu Ali

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