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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: Kondo Juma <kondojuma001@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:12:12 -1200
Subject: I Need Your Urgent Assistance

Greeting,

The internet has been grossly abused by scam artist and miscreants
whose intention is to hurt. In as much as one should be careful, same
time we should not allow negative to kill the positive potential in a
realistic business, please read my proposal carefully is 100%
Risk-free.

My name is Mr. Juma Kondo i work with, ECO BANK here in (Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso), married with three children. I am writing this letter
to ask your support and co-operation to carry out this business
opportunity in my department. After annual audit last month in my
department i discover documents of a late client Mr. Andreas Schranner
A German business magnate who made a numbered fixed deposit with this
bank valued $4million (Four Million United State Dollars,) and i was
lucky to have the scan documents with me in save position.

I discovered from his contract employers, the Petroleum Corporation
that Mr. Andreas Schranner, died in the plane crash on Monday, 31 July
2000, (an air France jet liner) with his entire family and other
passengers on board . According to Burkina Faso banking law after the
expiration of 20 (twenty ) years, if nobody apply for the claim it
will confiscate as state treasury, I am seeking for your support to
stand as next of kin/ beneficiary to claim these funds so that we move
it into useful investments, I am ready to share with you 40% for you
and 60% will be kept for me, You will provide offshore account where
the funds will be transferred that is reason while i am contacting you
is because i cannot stand in the forefront to claim the funds alone
because i am currently working with the bank, reply to my private
E-mail:(kondojuma@yandex.com).

I will like you to provide me with the following details if you are interested:

(1) Your Valid Direct Tel/ Mobile, Your Full Name, Current Resident
Address, Your Private E-mail Address, Your Occupation, Your Age and
your Nationality. Then i shall furnish you with due process of
concluding this transaction without any delay. Please discard this
message if you are not interested. One Passionate appeal, i will make
to you is not to discuss this matter with anybody, if you have any
reasons to reject this offer, please and please destroy this message
as any Leakage of this information will be too bad for me at my work
here in the bank

Thanks for your kind understanding.

Mr. Juma Kondo

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