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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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Fraud email example:

From: "mr.emmanuelkone" <mr.emmanuelkone77@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr_emmanuel_kone@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:59:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Confidential Respond


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Good day!
I am Mr. (Emmanuel kone)  director auditing and
accounting department" bank of Africa (boa) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso .I
discovered the sum of, Ten.Five million,  dollars (usd10.5 ) belonging to a
deceased customer of this bank the fund has been lying in a suspense account
without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account owner late,
Mr Salla khat from Lebanese who was involved in the December 28th 2006 Benin car
crash.

it is therefore, upon this discovery that i decided to take this
ultimatum and make this business proposal to you as the fund will be release to
you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and i don't want this money to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill the banking rules 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 deceased customer was a
foreigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.

Therefore, I am soliciting for your assistance to come forward
as the next of kin. I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the
beneficiary respect of the provision of your account and service rendered, 60%
will be for me. Then immediately the money transferred to your account from this
bank, I will proceed to your country for the sharing of the fund.

Yours
faithful,
 
Mr.Emmanuel
kone







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