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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. Abdoul Salam Sawadogo." <sirimaardj@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 00:16:49 -0800
Subject: THIS IS VERY URGENT!!!

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Greetings my good friend,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to 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. I am Dr. Abdoul Salam Sawadogo
the Director Management committee at Gnikpière planetGOLD Burkina
Faso. Presently my country are under Military Regime/Military in
power, they are seriously using their powers to humiliate us in Gold
Mining sectors; four months ago, they where interrogating us in Mining
sectors and then they started ceasing our properties, and currently
they arrested us and our families, we are currently under house
arrest, with our wives and children.
Please I and my colleagues have a huge sum of money with a bank (US
$27, 400,000.000 US Dollars) Twenty Seven Million Four Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars to an escrow account belonging to no
one in the bank. The Military government in power is anxious to know
the position of this money, and they have set their investigation
panels, please I urgently need your assistance to help us move this
money to your country, you will contact the bank and present yourself
to the bank as the owner of the money and the transfer of the money
into your bank account or you can also instruct the bank to load the
money into ATM VISA CARD and send to you in your country or you can
travel down to pick it up. Contact me urgently through my WhatsApp
phone number +226 672 32 501, and my private email address:
abdoulssengineer@engineer.com to give you the bank contact. You should
also see: www.planetgold.org/burkinafaso and read more about me.
Thanks for your corporation, waiting your urgent reply.
Dr. Abdoul Salam Sawadogo.

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