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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: Abdulaiye Rahmani <abdulaiyer67@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rabdulaiye46@yahoo.fr
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:44:00 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend

Dear Friend,

Greetings to you and your family.

My name is Mr. Abdulaiye Rahmani, The current Auditor of a bank here
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. I have a transaction of
US$9.5Million dollars for transferring into your home bank account for
our mutual benefits and i need your total and 100% cooperation and
assistance to realize this task.

Further details about the fund, its source and whom will stand as a
business partner to consulting. enterprise so that my bank can
transferred this fund into your receiving bank account immediately as
I have your positive response. You must assure me that everything
will be handled confidentially as I am assuring you that all your
details required for this transaction are all safe and secure. We will
never lack again in life if we can join hands together for making
this deal a success.

It has been over 9 years now that in my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$9.500.000 (Nine million Five hundred thousand US
dollars) In an account belongs to consulting enterprise in our country
Burkina Faso that political part sign a contract with him and move
huge amount of Funds into their various overseas counterparts bank
accounts through the help of their Political advisers.

Most of the funds which they transferred out of the West Africa were
realized from material consultants, these are the funds meant for the
development of our country Burkina Faso and their various Nations
being taken away for their greedy and selfish ambition.

Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before
transferring it into foreign accounts, so I also took the opportunity
to diverted part of these funds, hence I am aware that there is no
official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used
for such transactions were being closed after each transfer.

I as the major Account Officer to most of those politicians and the
then Foreign Remittance Dept Director of the bank, when I discovered
that they were using me to succeed in their greedy invents, I also
cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one
ever cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to
control. They laundered over US$964 Million Dollars during the
process.

As I am sending you this message, I have the ability to transfer the
diverted Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($9.5 M) into you
own bank account abrade from an escrow account belonging to no one in
the bank.

The bank is anxious now to know who his business partner to consulting
enterprise to this fund is because they have made a lot of profits
with the funds. It is more than Nine years now and most of the
politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas as
most of the have died and the rest are no more in power.

The US$9.5 Million Dollars has been lying fallow and I don't want to
retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign
account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. The money
will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you with expenses. There is no
one coming to ask you any question whatsoever about the funds because
I secured everything. Further details shall be mailed to you if only
you show any sign of seriousness and interest.

Best Regard,
Mr.Abdulaiye Rahmani
+22674186806

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