419 scam: "ABDUL RAZAQ" <causanille41@atlantiqueonline.net> TREAT AS CONFIDENTIAL

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "ABDUL RAZAQ" <causanille41@atlantiqueonline.net>
Reply-To: abdul.zarq@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:32:58 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS CONFIDENTIAL

Good Friend,
itâ€™s my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.
I got your contact from ONLINE search while I was SURFING the internet for a foreign partner.
I am a LAWYER by profession , A foreign lawyer to Gen. Gilbert DiendÃ©rÃ©, former BURKINA FASO minister of defence, who is currently under detention in Burkina Faso. presently no member of his family can appear in the country because of the offense he committed, and many of his assets has been seized by the government, including his account has been frozen. But I have a record of an account he Operated with my Names, and that account contains the sum DEPOSIT of ($7.2million dollars.
presently I cannot appear before the Bank to file for the claim of the funds because the benefactor is in detention.
Now My proposal to you is to partner with you, so that I can present you to the Bank as my business partner whom i wish to receive the funds and invest it.
at a successful completion, the funds will be splited in a ratio of 60% FOR ME and 40% FOR YOU.

if interested, send the below information to me for easy communication
Your full name
Your Telephone

Thanks,
Razaq Abdul

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