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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: "DR. OUSMANE KABA" <kabajusemane2000@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mrkaba2002@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:09:59 +0000
Subject: aslamu alaykum

Dear Friend,

I am well confident of your capability of executing this transaction for the mutual benefit of our both families, believing that you will not expose or betray the trust and confident I am about to repose on you.

I need your urgent assistance.i want to transfer the sum of $11.3m usd immediately to your account. the money has been dormant for four years in our Bank here.we want to release the money to you as the nearest person to the onwer of the account who died in aircrash.since nobody is coming for it because we don'twant the money to go into our Bank treasury as unclaimed money.

we have agreed that 25% of the above metioned fund will be for you for the provision of a foreign account and 2% will be for any expences incured during the transaction while the rest will be for me and my collegue.

Please we would like you to keep this transaction very confidential as you may wish to know that we are Bank officials.
upon receipt of your positive reply,i will send you more details of the transaction.

Dr.Ousmane Kaba
Bank Of Africa,Burkina Faso-West Africa




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