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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: Tibo Abdullah <tiboabdullah033@gmail.com>
Reply-To: tiboabdullah@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 09:29:33 -0600
Subject: Urgent soon as possible

Dearest Friend,

Assalamu alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

I am Tibo Abdullah, I want to seek your assistance after my discovery
during auditing in my bank as I'm the manager of Bill and Exchange at
the Foreign Remittance Department in African Development Bank
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.

In my department we discovered a sum of $27.500.000 million in an
account that belonged to one of our foreign customer. Upon maturity,
we sent a routine notifications to his forwarding addresses but got no
response. After some months, we sent a reminder and finally discovered
that our customer died from an automobile accident. On further
investigation, I found out that he did not leave a will and all
attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless, I therefore, i want
to used my position at the Bill and Exchange Manager to have the fund
transferred into your account in your country.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the person
did not declare any next of kin in all his officia documents,
including his bank deposit paperwork.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my
department to make this business proposal to you, to apply for the
money as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement, and you will be given 35% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me and my colleague in my bank, while 5% will
be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of
transferring. We will conclude this operation within 21 banking days
based on the amount of co-operation you will contribute.

You will apply and start the first transfer with Eleven million
[$11,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from
your side, then you shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining
amount to your account.

upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you are
capable and will meet up with instruction of a key bank official who
is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong
assurance that you will never,never let me down. With my influence and
the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any
foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that
this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country
for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any
place and to build confidence, you can come immediately to discuss
with me face to face.

Thank you for your understanding as I await your urgent response in
order to give you more details, don't forget to give me those
information below before we can go ahead in this business/project.


1. Residential address

2. Emergency contact

3. Work place and address

4.Your private telephone number

5.Your private E-mail address

6.Your profession

7.Your country

8.Your age

Yours faithfully,
Tibo Abdullah.

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