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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: =?utf-8?q?Emile=20Diallo?= <diallobf1960@yahoo.co.th>
Reply-To: emilediallo@terra.com
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:02:30 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: PLEASE, I NEED YOUR URGENT REPLY IMMEDIATELY,


ฉันมีที่อยู่อีเมลใหม่!ขณะนี้ คุณสามารถส่งอีเมลถึงฉันได้ที่ diallobf1960@yahoo.co.th



- Dear friend, Greeting's to you and your family! I am (Emile Diallo) The head of file department of Societe Generale De Banques Au Burkina (SGBB) here in Burkina Faso / Ouagadougou. In my department i discover an abandoned sum of ($5,600,000.00, five million, six hundred thousand us dollars ) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in plane crash, leaving no next of kin on his profile to come and claim his fund. And since after his death; nobody have ever come for the claim of his fund, because the deceased customer died with his entire family. It is therefore upon this discovery that i now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for the safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you, and 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 55% would be for me. Then after the money is been transferred into your account, i will visit your country for an investment under your kind control. So you will be contacting my bank directly as the real next of kin of this deceased customer account with next of kin application form, which i will be sending to you in my next mail as soon as i received your respond. Therefore send me those your information below to enable me use it and get you next of kin Application Form from bank, so that you will contact bank for the transfer of this money into your account. Your Full Name........................ Your Home Address........................... Your Age................................ Sex.......................................Your Home Telephone......................Your Personal Number...........................Fax Number................................. Receiving Country............................ Occupation.............................I am waiting for your urgent respond to enable us proceed further for the transfer of this fund into your account. Yours faithfully, Mr Emile Diallo.


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