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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: Dear friend <adanan_javed@gala.net>
Reply-To: javed.adanan@yahoo.it
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:27:04 +0530 (IST)
Subject: Dear Friend,


Dear Friend,
 
I am MR  ADANAN  JAVED from BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA,  working with  BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A). I want to contact you for this  business transaction  which i believe that it will benefit  both of us  at the end. In my department  the bank management  discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars ( fifteen million US Dollars) In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in the year 2006 on a motor accident.
 
Since the  got information about his death, the management  have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because they  can not  release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines but unfortunately the learnt that he died along with his family on their  traveling to near by country. 
 
It's therefore upon this discovery that I now as an insider  decided to make this business proposal to you and let's join together as partners and claim the money from my bank to your own account as YOU will be standing as  the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill with the plans of the bank managements.
 
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury’s as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact  that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as next of kin to a foreigner as the rules and  regulation  of my bank.
 
I decided to make it that 30 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner,inrespect to the provision of a foreign account and  assisting me , 10 % will be  for any expenses both of us will make during the processing of this fund to you as the next of kin to my bank  and 60 % will be for me and this 10% is for any expenses from your own side you make and from my own side  I  make during the processing of this  fund to you as the next of kin , and when the fund is transfer to your account  first of  all we have to deduct the expenses we made from our pocket during the processing  by my bank before shearing the fund according to the percentages I  indicated here in my proposal .
 
Then after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as the next of kin, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin to  the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where  the money will be remitted when the processing will be over and approval  of the fund to you as the next of kin  . Upon receipt of your reply, I will send  you by fax or email the text of the application.
 
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and  you should not fear as I  have all the information related to the deceased customer also the fund deposited here in my  bank . You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from  you . 
 
THANKS
MR ADANAN  JAVED  
B.O.A (BANK OF AFRICA )
 
 
 


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