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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. Alexandre Winkler" <gokijuvbgyt@aim.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:14:24 -0400
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?ALMIGHTY_GOD_HAS_DONE=C2=AD_IT,?=




Dear Friend,

I hope you are fine overthere in your country. I know that this message will come as a surprise to youbut let me start by introducing myself; I am Mr. Alexandre Winkler, Manager ofBank of Africa BOA Burkina Faso. I am writing you this letter to fulfill thepromise I have with Almighty, now listen to me let me explain to you, in mydepartment in the bank I discovered the sum of ($18.600, 000. eighteen Million six hundred thousand United State Dollars) and I was searching for aforeigner partner who will assist me to claims the fund, first I send you anE-mail concerning this transaction but I waited to hear from you about thetransaction business in which I proposed to you but did not hear anything fromyou again maybe you are too busy or you did not received my messaged.

So I have to search foranother person who will assist me luckily for me I founded a partner from SouthKorea and both of us did the business now when this transaction was going on Ihave agreement with Almighty, I promised Almighty if the transaction movesuccessfully that I will give out 10 percent of the total fund out to themotherless babies and the widowers and luckily for us the business movesuccessfully without any problem so as a good Christian I did not forget mypromise to Almighty, I decided to give out the 10 percent to the needy ones ,so I decided to hand over the money under your care for you to use and help themotherless babies and the widowers over there in your country, Now I am inSouth Korea with my new partner who helped me finalized everything about thetransaction. So therefore I kept the total sum of $ 1.860,000, Million (OneMillion eight Hundred sixty Thousand United State Dollars),

As the 10 percent of thetotal fund for the motherless babies and the widowers and I deposited the moneywith the Coris Bank International under my secretary care Mrs.Latifa koumbousi,email ( latifakoumbousi2007@gmail.com ) therefore contact Mrs.Latifa koumbousi,immediately via her email address so that she will direct you how to receivethe funds. you can receive it into your bank account in your country, so feelfree to contact my secretary Mrs.Latifa koumbousi, for I have gave theminstruction to transfer the funds to you as soon as you contact her; pleasegive some part of this funds to the motherless babies and widowers in yourcountry that is my promise to Almighty.

N: B Note that I willnot be checking my email because I am too busy here now in South Korea, I haveinstructed my secretary to direct you how to receive the funds and I want youto keep this as secret do not let my secretary to know about this transaction Ijust explain to you now I only kept the fund under her care but she’s not awareof the transaction I told her that the money is for business , so contact herand introduce yourself to her because I have also told her about you sotell her to direct you on how you will receive the funds please make sure thatthe motherless babies and the widowers over there in your country will receivethis money successfully as I promise to Almighty.

Thanks
Best Regards,
Mr. Alexandre Winkler



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