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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: m_rasaq005@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:14:13 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?EXTREMLY=20CONFIDENTIAL=20REPLY=20URGENTLY?=

FROM THE DESK OF DR MALIK RASAQ

BILL AND EXCHAGE MANAGER. FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT

BANK OF AFRICA( BOA) BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA

DEAR FRIEND

Compliments,

I am writting to seek your coperation over this business deal.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of$30million USD(THIRTYmillion
US dollars)only , in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers
who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in
Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United
States of America but naturalised in Burkinafaso,West Africa and contractor
with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN

STATES) .

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines but unfortunately 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 businness proposal to you and release the money to you via your
foreign bank account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and

this money Could go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remainedunclamed
after four years, the money will betransfered into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum

co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and
a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for expences incured
during the business and 50 % would be for me.There after I will come over
to

your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.Therefore
to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must
apply first to the bank as the relation or next of kin to the deceased,indicating
your claims and wherein the money will be remitted .Upon receipt of your
reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of application which
you will fill and submit to the office of the foreign remittance director
of the bank of africa. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is stricly confidential and i will use my position in this Bank
to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Please , visit the website below for more informations about the Plane

Crash

and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late DR.

GEORGE

BRUMLEY.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html

THANKS

DR M RASAQ





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