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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: "Bello Musa." <wamadirector514@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drbellomusa009@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:24:11 +0000
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT AND URGENT.

Dear Friend

Please carefully read this Message and get back to me if you can
handle this deal, My name is Dr.Bello Musa I am a banker working with
one of the well known Bank here in Burkina Faso as an Bill and
Exchange Manager, the name of the bank will be mention to you in
details when i receive you respond for security reasons.

During the past year Auditing i come across an unclaimed Fund of
Eighteen Million U.S Dollars ($18,000.000.00) and after going through
the Fund file i discovered that this Fund was deposited by our late
customer who died in a Car accident along side with his family, he
deposited the Fund as a contract Fund living no one as a Beneficiary/
Next Of Kin to claim the Fund because the Money was made for an
already Awarded and sign contract before his Death.

For over Six month now i have been doing under ground investigation
concerning the Fund and i found out that the Company of our late
customer Mr Jamel A.Y.Alhajji, from Kuwait has been Fold as his staffs
was unable to manage the Company after his death.

Now i want to present you to our Bank as the Beneficiary of the Fund
using the information which i will later give you to apply as a
business partner to our Late customer, taking over to Execute the
already sign contract so that the Bank will transfer the Fund into
your Bank Account in your country and it shall be for the benefit of
both of us, as i promise to back you up with all the necessary
information concerning the Fund, There will be No Risk or problem in
this transaction since i have the profile of the Fund in my position.
Get back to me for more details if you can handle this transaction.

Waiting for your urgent respond.

Sincerely,
Dr.Bello Musa.
Tel:00 226 65 39 62 44.

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