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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: albert_kafando01 <albert_kafando@sify.com>
Reply-To: mr_kafando01@hotmail.fr
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:41:25 -0800 (PST)
Subject: How are you today.....?








Dear Friend, 

 
I am MR ALBERT KAFANDO,a senior staff in file
department,Bank Of Africa (B.O.A), Burkina faso. In my department we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$15.2m dollars (Fifteen million, two hundred thousand US
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
along with his entire family on (Monday 31st July 2005) in a plane crash.

 

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guideline and law 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 now decided to make this business (DEAL)proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law
and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five
years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of
kin to a foreigner. 

 
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foreign account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 60% would be for me. Thereafter, I will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.
 
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the
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 by fax or email the text of the application .I will not fail to bring to
your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and you should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.


You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter, If
you are intrested reply me at my private email address albert11kafando@yahoo.fr.

for more details ok,  Trusting to hear from you.


Yours Faithfully,
Mr Albert Kafando, 
Senior Staff In File
Department,
Bank
Of Africa (B.O.A).
 
 



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