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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: "issihka zakki" <issihka_zakki67@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: issihka_zakki@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:08:25 +0200
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR CONTRACT BUSINESS TRANSACTION.

FROM THE OFFICE OF WADA
DR ISSIHKA ZAKKI
CURRENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FINANCE (WADA)
OUAGADOUGOU/BURKINA FASO.
WEST AFRICA.



Dear friend,

With reference to an introduction and recommendation made of your esteemed
firm by the Burkina Faso chamber of comerce and industry, I do hereby wish
to commence talk with you on a highly confidential level.

My name is Dr.ISSIHKA ZAKKI, a Gambian nationality and the current deputy
director (finance) of west African development agency, north-west zonal
office, Burkina Faso. My office oversees all develpment projects financed,
by the economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) within this zone
(Burkina Faso, Maliand Mauritania).

After due consultation with other key directors of my agency. I have been
specifically mandated to contact you in order to arrange a possible transfer
of US$33 million dollars (thirty three million US dollars) into your private
account. This money is a subject of an over inflated sum accrued from
contracts awarded by my agency in the last 3 years, principally for the
development of agriculture and health facilities in all the West African
countries mentioned above. The original contractor have however, been paid
and all projects executed by them commissioned. This over-inflated amount
cannot be withdrawn locally from the paying bank because the contracts
concern foreign firms, hence we resolve to contact you.

Upon indication of your willingness to assist and fully participate in this
business, we shall arrange a meeting with all the officials involved, for
face to face talk and final arrangements for sharing.

Moreover, we have resolved to invest the bulk of our share into a viable
business to be controlled by you pending our ritirement from government
service.

After many years of meticulous service to the government, we would not want
our image to be dent in this sub-region. Therefore, we expect you to handle
this transaction with utmost maturity by keeping everything confidential. I
can assure you that if our instructions are carefully adhered to, there will
not be any hindrance throughout this transaction. There is no risk on your
side because we have been perfecting this deal very well over years.

I await for your immediate response.

Yours truly,
Dr. ZAKKI

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