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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: Djibril Koumba <djibril.koumba54@voila.fr>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:57:53 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Just my urgent need of your partnership


Good Day,

Please accept my apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics, is just my urgent need of your partnership and cooperation to provide a good and reliable bank account that can receive US$ 12,251  Million. This said fund was deposited in our bank years back by late Col. Muammar Gaddafi late Libyan leader and due to the fact that none of his family members knows about this fund our bank top executives are planning to transfer the fund to the bank treasury account as an abandon fund (unclaimed bill) for embezzlement to share the fund amongst the CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS and TOP SHAREHOLDERS of the Bank.

Please read below website:

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/muammar-gaddafi-stashed-away--200-billion/195512-2.html

My major reason why I decided to contact you is that I want to present you in our bank as Next of kin to this fund whereby you shall stand as a Business Associates jointly with late Col. Muammar Gaddafi in business of purchasing Gold from Burkina Faso mining cooperation which makes you eligible to claim the fund without any rejection from our bank. I have all the valuable information about deposit of the fund and I am ready to supply it to you to claim the fund once you give me full assurance to cooperate with me, I would have personally transferred this fund to a foreign account before now but as I am a civil servant working in the same bank we are not allowed to operate a foreign account these are my reasons I needed cooperation of a foreigner to stand in for claim of the fund.

I want to guarantee you that this transaction is 100% risk free and will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. All I need from you is your Honest cooperation, confidentiality and trust to enable us sees this transaction through and at the conclusion of the fund transfer to your account you will have 40% of the total fund as the account owner, 50% will be for me, and 3% will be mapped out for expense, while 7% will be set aside as a free will donation to charity and motherless babies homes.

On your confirmation of this email indicating your interest, I will furnish you with more details and please endeavor to let me know your decision rather than keep me waiting. Note, treat this proposal as top secret but if you are not interested in this transaction please delete my letter.

I wait to hear from you soonest.

Thank you and best regards

Mr.  Djibril  Koumba.

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