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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: "Mr.Sayed Rilwanou" <mr.sayed_rilwanou1@voila.fr>
Reply-To: mr.sayed_rilwanou@voila.fr
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:20:32 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Hello Dear!.Very Important Matter,Your Urgent Answer Needed




From:Dr.Sayed Rilwanou
Director File Department of
THE AFRICAN BANK (T A B)
Ouagadougou ,Burkina Faso.

Dear;
I am the Director/Head of file Department in THE AFRICAN BANK (T A B) Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.

During careful cross checkings in my department we discovered an abandoned Total sum of $35.7million U.S.A Dollars ( Thirty-Five point Seven Million U.S Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with all his family in the Asia Earth Quake Disaster (TSUNAMI,DISASTER 2004).

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 apply for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines,but unfortunately i learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the Earth Quake Disaster (TSUNAMI,DISASTER) leaving nobody behind for the claim.

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 safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it for all this past years.Because i don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury account as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after six years,the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury 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 cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I have decided and agree that 5% for expenses ,30% of this money will be for you in respect to the provision of a foreign account and 65% for me.There 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 arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of 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 .

Upon receipt of your reply and acceptance to help me,I will send to you more information followed by the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear in your mind, as all required arrangements have been made for the successful transfer.

And please ,you have to keep every thing concerning this project confidentiality to yourself as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly as i planned into the account you will provide to the bank,to avoid enemies of progress causing problem for us.I hope you do understand me very well.

I am awaiting for your immediate response as you receive this mail .

Your’s faithfully,
DR.SAYED RILWANOU.

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