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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: Kabore William <kaborewilliam24@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kaborewilliam30@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:40:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE.




Dear friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, I got your
contact address from the computerized search. My name is Mr
Kabore William. I am the Bill and Exchange (assistant) Manager of
Bank of Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of thirteen million five hundred
thousand United State of American dollars (13.5 MILLION USA
DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer Mr Kurt Kuhle from Alexandra Egypt who died along with
his family in Siber airline that crashed into sea at Isreal on
4th October 2001.

 Since I got information about his death I have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can
not release it unless somebody applies for it as the next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

 It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as next of
kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want the
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

 Am contacting you because our deceased customer is a foreigner
and a Burkinabecan not stand as a next of kin to a foreign
customer. The banking guidelines stipulate that the fund should
be transferred into the bank treasury after 9 years if nobody is
coming for the claim. I have agreed that 33% of this money will
be for you as foreign partner in respect to the provision of your
account for the transfer, 2% will be set aside for expenses that
might occurred during the business and 65% would be for me, after
which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentages indicated.

Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and
as a top secret as you may wish to know that I am a bank
official.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Kabore William.




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