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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: nanado ben <nanado_106@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <nanado_21@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:02:26 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL



Dear Friend
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE I AM Dr NANADO BENJAMIN THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPT,BANKOFAFRICA (BOA)OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA.BRANCH.I am writing to seek your coperation over abusiness deal.
In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $27.7million (US dollars In an account that belongs to one of our foreigncustomar who died along with his entirefamily in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next ofkin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unlesssomebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased asindicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all hissupposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crashleaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discoverythat I and other officials in my department now decided to make thisbusinness proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin orrelation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement sincenobody is coming for it and we don’t want this moneyto 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 be transfered into the Banktreasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by thefact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as nextof kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, inrespect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside forexpenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me and mycolleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country fordisbursement 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 relations or next of kin of the deceasedindicating 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 ofthe application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that thistransaction is stricly confidential and i will use all our position in thisBank to effect a hitch free transfer.You should contact me immediately assoon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your’s faithfully,
Dr NANADO BENJAMIN.
URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL
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