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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: natu <traorenatu8000@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 03:24:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: REPLY VERY URGENT IF YOU CAC HANDEL THE DEAL SECRET




Good day,   

 

With due
respect , trust and humanity, i appeal to you to exercise a little patient and
read through my letter, I wish to contact you personally for a long term
relationship and investment assistance in your Country, i will really like to
have a good relationship with you and I have a special reason why I decided to
contact you.  

 

My name is
Mrs. NATU TRAORE I am in the Office of Auditing and Accounting File Manager
with Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso. In my department i discovered an
abandoned sum of (US$5.5M DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from Florida, U.S.A) who died along with
his entire family on November 1999
in a plane crash and also left 22 karat GOLD DUST in a
security company when he was alive.  

 

I need your
urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($5.5 Million USD Dollars) to your
account within 7banking days, while every necessary arrangement should commence
after I have hear from you.   

 

This money
has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim, and I don't want the
money to go into the Reserve Bank of Burkina Faso (RBBF), as an abandoned fund.
So this is the reason why I contacted you so that the bank can release the
money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer.

 

Please I
would like you to keep this transfer as a top secret between me and you alone
ok.   

 

I promise
you that i will direct you on how this transfer will go successfully if only
you can abide to my instruction.

 

Upon
receipt of your reply i will give you full details on how the business will be
executed.  

 

Kindly send
me this information below to have trust in you that you would betray me.   

 

(1) Your
full name...

(2) Your
address...

(3)
Country..

(4) Age...

(5)
Occupation.......

(6) Private
telephone number

(7) Sex.

 

l will send
you my details of this transaction as soon as I hear from you thanks, trusting
to hear from you immediately with your contact information   

 

My Regards.   

 

Mrs NATU TRAORE


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