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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: "Mr. Rashid Esaka" <mr.rashidesaka67@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 22:09:51 +0430
Subject: DEAR FRIEND,

DEAR FRIEND,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department Bank of African (B O A).

I got your address in Burkina Faso chamber of commerce through yahoo
details. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 30,
000,000 US dollars (Thirty Million US dollars) In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in a concord plane crash in the year 2003 in Paris that almost
took the whole life of the passengers on board.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless somebody applies for it as 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 at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that i and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after three years, the money will be transferred
into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 45% of this money will be
for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the
business and 50% would be for; me to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin
of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where in the money will be remitted .Upon
receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch
free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to
hear from you immediately. Yours faithfully,

Please try to get back to me form this private e-mail address.
mr.rashidesaka67@gmail.com. I am looking forward to read from you
soon.

Mr. Rashid Esaka.
Thanks

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