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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. Sirmad Alain Bassi" <mr.salireza@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.sirmad-el-bassi_alireza@barid.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 05:05:51 +0200
Subject: Your urgent letter is needed immediately.

Dear Partner,

My name is Mr. Sirmad Al Bassi a banker working with the Bank of
Africa BOA Burkinafaso. I have decided to seek a confidential
co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described
here-under for our both mutual benefit and I hope you will keep it a
top secret because of the nature of the transaction. During the course
of our bank year auditing, I discovered an unclaimed fund worth the
total of {US$50.5 Million United State Dollars} in the bank account
that belongs to a America businessman who unfortunately lost his life
and entire family in a motor accident.

Now our bank has been waiting for any of his relatives to come up for
the claim but nobody has shown up for the fund claim. I personally has
been unsuccessful in locating any of the relatives, now I sincerely
seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin / Will Beneficiary
to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at
{US$50.5 Million United State Dollars} can be paid to you, which we
will share in these percentages ratio, At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 50% will be for
me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred
during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest
reply.

All I request is your utmost sincere co-operation, trust and maximum
confidentiality to achieve this project successfully. I have carefully
planned out the moralities for execution of this transaction under a
legitimate arrangement to protect you from any breach of the law both
in your country and here in Burkina Faso when the fund is being
transferred to your bank account.

Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full
details of the account to be used for the deposit. I need your full
co-operation to make this work fine. Because the management is ready
to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information
of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response
and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in
this business.

(1) YOUR FULL NAME..........................
(2) YOUR AGE...........................
(3) MARITAL STATUS........................
(4) YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER........................
(5) YOUR FAX NUMBER........................
(6) YOUR COUNTRY.......................
(7) YOUR OCCUPATION............................
(8) SEX............................
(9) YOUR RELIGION...........................
(10) YOUR PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS...........................

NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION IS CONFIDENTIAL.

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

Bill and Exchange (Executive Director).

Best regard
Mr. Sirmad Al Bassi

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