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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: Mohammed Saad <mohammedsaadht@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mohammedssaaaad@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:14:06 -0700
Subject: Business Proposal ...........................................

Greeting,

The internet has been grossly abused by scam artist and miscreants
whose intention is to hurt. In as much as one should be careful, same
time we should not allow negative to kill the positive potential in a
Realistic business, please read my proposal carefully which is 100%
Risk-free. My name is Mr. Mohammed Saad the Head: Financial
Surveillance UBA BANK OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO married with three
children. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and
co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.
After annual audit last month I discovered documents of a late client
Mr. Christian Eich

A German business magnate who made a number of fixed deposit with my
branch valued € 15 million Euros and I was lucky to have the scan
documents with me in save position. I discovered from his contract
employers, the Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Christian Eich died in
a plane crash few years ago

According to Burkina Faso law after the expiration of 17 (Seventeen)
years, if nobody apply for the claim, it will be confiscated and sent
to state treasury, I am seeking for your support to stand as next of
kin / beneficiary to claim these funds so that we move it into useful
investments, I am ready to share with you, 30% for you and 60% will be
kept for me, 10 percentage will be mapped out for expenses .You will
provide offshore account where the funds will be transferred to. The
reason while I am contacting you is because I cannot stand in the
forefront to claim the funds alone because I am currently working with
the bank,

I will like you to provide me with the following details if you are interested:

(1) Your Valid Direct Tel/ Mobile/Fax Number.
(2) Your Full Name:
(3) Current Resident Address.
(4) Your Private E-mail Address.
(5) Your Occupation:
(6) Your Age and Sex:
(7) Your Nationality:

Then I shall furnish you with due process on how to conclude this
transaction without any delay. Please discard this message if you are
not interested. One passionate appeal, I will make to you is not to
Discuss this matter with anybody, if you have any reasons to reject
this offer, please and please discard this message as any Leakage of
this information will be too bad for me at my work place as the Head:
Financial Surveillance Department, here in Burkina Faso

Thanks for your kind understanding.

Mr Mohammed Saad

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