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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: "From Mr.Aziz Issa" <davidkabore101@gmail.com>
Reply-To: azizissa808@aol.com
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 16:19:50 +0000
Subject: Greeting to you,

>From Mr.Aziz Issa
Bill And Exchange Manager
Freeaing International Dept
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
West Africa

Greeting to you,

I am Mr.Aziz Issa, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of Banque International Du Burkina Faso (B.I.B)
Bank,In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of (($10.5m US
dollars)(Ten Million five hundred thousand US Dollars)) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer, who died along with his
entire family on, December 2014 in plane crash with Airbus A320 Plane.

Since i got information about his death, I have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not
release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the decease as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws, but
unfortunately i learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation
died along side with him at the plane clash leaving no body behind for
the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of
kin or relation to the decease for safety and subsequent disbursement
since nobody is coming for it and i 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 until after Ten years, the money will be
transferred into the bank treasure as unclaimed fund. The request of a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner and a (Burkinabe) cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.

I agree that 50% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner,
in respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 50% will be for
me.

Therefore,to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arrange, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin
to the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account, 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 letter of application.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business 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 reply me immediately as soon as you receive this letter for
more explanation.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Aziz Issa.

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