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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.Al-Aziz Mohammed" <mr.al.azizmohammed@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.Al.azizmohammed@outlook.fr
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 06:56:59 -0700
Subject: Greetings My Dear Friend,


Greetings My Dear Friend,

Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a
hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must
come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people
meet and become great friends and business partners. Please I
want you to read this letter very carefully and i Must apologize for
barging this message into your mail box without any formal
introduction due to the urgency and confidentiality of this business and I
know that this message will come to you as a surprise. Please this is not a
joke and I will not like you to joke with it ok, with due respect to your
person and much sincerity of purpose, I make this contact with you as I
believe that you can be of great assistance to me. My name is Mr.Al-Aziz
Mohammed, from Burkina Faso, West Africa. I work in United Bank for Africa
(UBA) as telex manager, please see this as a confidential message and do
not reveal it to another person and let me know whether you can be of
assistance regarding my proposal below because it is a top secret.

For more information, please contact me with this my private email address:
mr.al.azizmohammed@outlook.fr

I am about to retire from active Banking service to start a new life but I
am skeptical to reveal this particular secret to you as a stranger. You
must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we
are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most
of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas
through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they
transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was
supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political
advisers always inflated the amounts before transferring to foreign
accounts, so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence
I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as
all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.
I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I
discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also
cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared
to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They
laundered over $5billion Dollars during the process.

Before I send this message to you, I have already diverted ($10.5million
Dollars) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the
bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is
because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than
Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to
transfer funds overseas. The ($10.5million Dollars) has been laying waste
in our bank 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 (a foreigner). The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for
you. There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured
everything. I only want you to assist me
by providing a reliable bank account where the funds can be transferred.


For more information, please contact me with this my private email address:
mr.al.azizmohammed@outlook.fr

You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to
handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of
receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you a
detailed information on what to do. For me, I have not stolen the money
from anyone because the other people that took the whole money and did not
face any problems. This is my chance to grab my own life opportunity but
you must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no
one in the bank knows about my plans. Please get back to me if you are
interested and capable to handle this project, I shall intimate you on what
to do when I hear from your confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable
of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me I am looking
forward to hear from you immediately for further information.
Thanks with my best regards.
Mr.Al-Aziz Mohammed,
Telex Manager
United Bank for Africa (UBA)
Burkina Faso

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