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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Alkadel Ouattao" <aalkadelouattao@aol.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:07:43 -0500
Subject: Urgent reply confidential please







Mypresent internet connection is very slow in case you received my email in yourspam

DearFriend,

Myname is Mr. Alkadel Ouattao; the manager of account & auditing dept., withthe Bank of Africa (BOA) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso West Africa.

Iam contacting you because of an urgent business transaction that I want to dowith a trustful foreigner, I got your email information through the BurkinaFaso’s chamber of Commerce and industry on foreign business relations here inOuagadougou, I haven't disclose this deal to anybody..

Ofresent, on the 7th of November 2017, the sum of (Sixteen Million Five HundredThousand United States Dollars) $16,500.000 was deposited with my bank where Iwork,

Disguisedas a family heirloom in a trunk box, this is not the only time that corruptgovernment officials uses the services of my bank to ship their ill-gottenwealth abroad or secure it for future use. I took exceptional note of thisdeposit because it was large and as the man at the helm of affairs then, I gotto know the man behind the deposit, Late Dr. George Brumley who we learn diedon a plane crash with his entire family his wife and his only child on 21stJuly. 2003.

Clickthis page to confirm his death:http://savannahnow.com/stories/072203/LOCKenyaCrash.shtml

Thereason for my contacting you is that I checked and found out that the depositis still intact and nobody has asked for it, and I know that nobody will everask for it, I am the only living soul who knows about this, no other person canretrieve the deposit except the person can answer the questions of my bank, theway we operate is that if the depositor wants to retrieve his deposit, he willinstruct the bank in writing and give the answer and if the manager confirmsthe answer, the deposit will be released at once to the person. For yoursmoothness of this transaction, I will pay you 30% of the total sum for yourco-operation in this matter if you accept to work with me, I will give you theinstruction letter to send to my bank and also when the bank asks for thequestion, I will give them to you.
I am waiting for your urgent response!!!
Thanks and remain blessed
Mybest regards
Mr. Alkadel Ouattao.

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