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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: dr.ahmedcompore1@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:10:32 +0000
Subject: THIS IS URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSSAL.

THIS IS URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSSAL.

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FROM THE DESK OF DR. AHMED COMPOARE.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICAN OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA.
MY PRIVATE E-MAIL; compoare.dr.ahmed@yandex.com
MY NUMBER. +226 64554871


THIS IS URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSSAL.


Good Morning Sir. My Name Is Dr. Ahmed Compoare Staff of BOA Bank of Africa
of Burkina Faso West Africa. I am writing following the impressive
information about you through my reseach from your country directory.
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET. However after
series of petition was recieved by this present regime from foreign
contractors and inability of the BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)to fulfill their
obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors, in conjunction with
the council of ministers, they mandated us to carry out a careful and
comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign contractors and to
effect payments immediately. in this process we discovered an abandoned
sum of $15.5 m US dollars ( Fifteen million Five Hundred US dollars).In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER
from Munich, Germany who died along with his entire family on Monday, 31
July, 2000 in a plane crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm.


According to the information we got about his death, we have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless his next of kin or relative applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in
my department now decided to excape with the fund,and as such we vial to
make this business proposal to you so that my bank will release the fund
into your account as the next of kin to our bank deceased customer for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for claims and we
don't want this money to go into the bank treasury.


Infact i know the fund will not even go into the bank treasury,but our top
bank officials directors will only share it among themselves into their
accounts. The Banking law and guideline here in burkina faso stipulates
that if any customer account or property remains unserviceable or
dormant,and unclaimed after five years, the account will be confiscated and
transfered into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bill.


The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30% of this money will be for you
as foreign partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account,and
your imense contribution to champion the course of transfering the fund to
your account. 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred by the both
party during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.


There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable my bank
transfer the fund into your account,i will send to you the text of
application which you will send to my bank as next of kin to the deceased
customer and that will be when you indicate your interest in the business,
you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of our bank
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location
where in the money will be remitted.


Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you email the of the
application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is risk-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required informations will be perfectly made for you to champion the course
of the transaction with my bank without any hitch or risk. You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. I am waiting to
hear from you immediately if you are Interested in this propossal.


Your's sincerely,
Dr. Ahmed Compoare.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER(BOA).
MY PRIVATE E-MAIL; compoare.dr.ahmed@yandex.com

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