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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: "dramhed usman" <dramhed_usman016@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: amhed_90usman@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:37:43 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROM THE DESK OF Dr AMHED USMAN
BANK OF AFRICAN B.O.A (ANNEX)
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA-FASO.

Dear,

My name is Dr Amhed Usman the Bill and Exchange(assistant) Manager of the
BANK OF AFRICAN B.O.A Ouagadouguo Burkina Faso.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USD$10.5M(TEN MILLION
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S.A DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to this our
foreign customer who died along with his wife and and children in the 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
somebody applies for it as the next of kin or relation to the deceased, as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him in the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.

On the account of your reliability and trust worthiness, I have decided to
contact you in order to transfer the said amount into your nominated bank
account, it's 100% risk free.

Upon receipt of the above mentioned, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a
TEXT OF APPLICATION which you shall re-type and fax to our foreign
remittance Department,for easy execution of the transaction.

All necessary documents shall be obtained on your behalf to back-up this
claims.

Kindly contact me on for security reason and for more explanations and
possible means of transferring the fund into your account.

If you accept our offer I shall compensate you with 30% of the money, 60%
goes to me and
my colleague, after which we shall visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages
indicated.

I am assuring you that with my position this money will hit your account
before 21 banking working days.

Send an e-mail as soon as you get this message, I will be waiting.

NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION IS STRICLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Thanks for your assistance in advance.

Your promt response will be highly appreciated.

Yours faithfully.

Dr.AMHED

BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

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