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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: afattah31@laposte.net
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:29:53 +0100
Subject: Dear friend


Dear friend,
how are you doing with your family? Hope fine, please pay attention understand my reason of contacting you today through this email, my name is Mr Fattah Abdul, bill and exchange manager in bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, in my department.During the auditing of the year 2011, i discovered an abounded sum of $15m that belongs to our late (Mr. Andreas Schranner from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in a plane crash.
For more information visit this site bellowhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stmi desperately need your assistance to secure andmove this huge sums of money left behind by my late client to the tune of $15m,(fifteen million us dollars) out from bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso to your own account.
He executed contract through department of work and housing here in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso and the mentioned money above is his money left in our bank before his death. Meanwhile, for your smoothness of this transaction, i will pay you40% of the total sum for your co-operation in this matter.
As soon as you respond back to me, i will immediately draft an application form with all your information's and send back to you, so that you will proceed with the transaction by sending the form to boa bank for the transferring of this fund into your account.Yours faithfully,Mr Fattah Abdul.

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