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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: ALI AHMED <erimore53@gmail.com>
Reply-To: alhmed777@yandex.com
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:13:49 +0100
Subject: READ AND GET BACK TO ME

Dear Friend,


I am Mr Ali Ahmed,from Burkina faso in West Africa.I got your e-mail
contacts from computerised datas after my extensive search via the
website for a God-fearing and trust-worthy person to bestow this
transaction which is the only hope of our survival into his or her
hands.When i got your address,I prayed and meditated fervently over it
and i commited it into the hands of God, that you should be the
rightful person to help us out before I made up my decision to contact
you.I am The Manager of Auditing Department of Our Bank ,Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso.In my department we discovered an abandoned usd$15M(
Fifteen Million United States Dollars). In an account that belongs to
this our foreign customer who died along with his wife and and
children in the plane crash.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
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 proposals 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
because I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.I will give you more details on your reply of this mail

Waiting to hear from you

Mr.Ali Ahmed

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