is someone running a scam with bank of africa burkina faso (boa)?
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Yes, it's called a "dead customer" scam, based on the storyline that involves a person who died without anyone claiming the millions he left in his account.\n\nIt's a classic 419 scam or advance fee fraud.
750880
YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET SCAMMED!! .. if you don't know who this is that is supposedly sending you money then watch out..looks like this person is trying to get your bank account info..
322470
Yes, I have heard of this scam and others like it and different from it...\n\nYou can find out about any and all scams and any truth or lies to them by visiting these sites and bookmarking them for future use on all rumors...
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I would check with the better business bureau.  \n\ndo not give ANYONE your bank account information. \n\nit sounds fishy to me...you should check with the police if they have had incidents with this company.
1022981
Oh, I have seen grammar like this before. I am going to take a stab in the dark and say I bet it originated out of someplace in Africa, but I won't mention any countries by name. It sounds like a scam all right. The last time I got a message like that, I said something like, "Please take me off your email list. If you contact me again, I will have to forward your information on to my friend, who is an agent in the FBI. He is doing a special project in tracking people who are involved in international fraud schemes, and he would be really interested in knowing more about you." Believe, me I never heard from the individual ever again.
537239
Anything that comes out of Nigeria is a scam.Be careful about the UK also because they use that as an address for scams. Lotteries are also scams. Use your head when you get emails like that.
170397
Well, it sounds like a variant on the Nigerian Scam, but apparently they're branching out into other parts of Africa...  It's a scam, just get rid of it.
224284
Yes. Sweepstakes scams many fooled by spreading false mails to them by a group of africans and indonesians.\nOne of my friend was fooled last year when he received an email and told us all that he won a huge amount in a sweepstake, the sender was an african who pretended to be from UK and a UK based address was given to him for sending $100 in 15 fifteen days to claim his check or he would be disqualified. and he did send the 100 buck to them.\nOh what a foolishness.
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My roommate got caught in the same scam. The girl told him she loved him and sh*t like that. Saying that she needed him to cash the money order, and send the money to her sister. He got screwed out of 120,000 bucks. He went to the police but there was nothing they could do. That was over two years ago and he's still paying back the bank. Really sad that people are still falling for the scam now...even sadder that the people are keeping up the scam. At least you're smart and know it was a scam. What the police told my ex roommate was that there's no way to tell who the person is, so the most you can do is report it to yahoo. They'll pull the account, but they'll only create another one and be back out doing it in ten mins.
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That was a scam?  \n\nWonder if I can get by old job back.  ;(\n\nI just have to hold on a little while longer.  My friend Abdule is sending me $20,000,000 for helping him out with a money transaction.  Those Nigerian banks sure are slow!
995353
The only Nigerian small business that I know about might not even be Nigerian.  It's something about a bank closing or funds moving and this guy wants me to move the money to the US where it will supposedly be safer and I will get a cut of the money if I just open up my bank account so they can deposit all the the millions and millions of dollars.  It sounded like embezzling though, so I lost interest...
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DONT REPLY.  these are new ways of frauds. there was also one email from a general in african country which was in circulation. Even i have got the mail which u have received
88799
They are definately a scam.I have gotten several.Don't respond.If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria — or any other country, for that matter — forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov.
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I hate to say this but I don't know myself but whomever they are, I think they are trying to rob me. I didn't sign up for anything from that "company" and just recently I saw an attempt to withdraw $159 from my banking account. Since then I have been searching for the company and location and names but I haven't found anything yet. If I do I will be sure to pass it along to you and anyone else that has had problems with this "company."
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My fiance and I fell for this scam about 2 months ago. We wired them a deposit of $750 and never received a call back OR our money! I really wish we would have looked into everything alot more closely. When we tried calling them, no one EVER answered, we left countless messages for someone to call back. \nFinally, after a week of no response I went back to the site and did a whole new request under my name. LESS then 24 hours later, someone called! We told them who we really were and they hung up on us! Well, we called back again and someone different answered. We explained everything to this women, we told her that "Sally Hamilton/ Rachel Wilson" never called us back or emailed us, and that we were going to hire a lawyer against them. That must have scared this women because she said she was going to have to speak to "Sally/ Rachel" about that issue. She also told us SHE would be refunding out entire depost in 30 days.\nIt's been OVER 30 days and we have not received anything, not the deposit, not a phone call, nothing! Now, if you go to www.carltonfinancialgroup.com, their website is down, we have no other way to contact these people, and all of the numbers we have contacted them through before are not in service anymore.\nWhat phone numbers do you have and who did you speak to?\n\nThis is a SCAM, please don't do it!\n\nPlease respond, maybe we can put our information together.
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"Advance fee fraud, often also known as the Nigerian money transfer fraud, Nigerian scam or 419 scam after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that it violates[1], is a fraudulent scheme to extract money from victims after making them believe they will get an immense fortune. Victims are requested to pay an upfront fee before their purported fortune is released.\n\nThese scams have come to be associated in the public mind with Nigeria due to the massive proliferation of such confidence tricks from that country since the mid-eighties, although they are often also carried out in other African nations, and increasingly from European cities with large Nigerian populations, notably London, Amsterdam and Madrid and lately also Dubai (United Arab Emirates).\n\nOriginally, the schemers contacted mainly heads of companies and church officials, however, the use of e-mail spam and instant messaging for the initial contacts has led to many private citizens also being targeted, as the cost to the scammers to make initial contact is much lower.\n\nThe United States Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert about the Nigerian scam. It says: "If you receive an offer via email from someone claiming to need your help getting money out of Nigeria — or any other country, for that matter — forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov."\n\nThe United States Department Of The Treasury advises "You may also email the 419er documents, especially any banking data they may have given you, marked as described above, to Task Force Main in DC 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov; that is also acceptable."\n\nThe number 419 is used in Nigeria's criminal code to describe this sort of crime and explains the penalty for it."
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Do a Google search for the phrase "nigerian bank scam".  The email that you received is one of the most common scams on the  internet.  \n\nSome poor soul passed away, leaving behing millions of dollars and you as the only known heir.  An attorney or some government official wants to get the money out of the country and wants to pay you a percentage.  Suddenly, they need money for transaction fees or bribes.  You send them money and suddenly you never hear from them again.\n\nI get lots of these emails.  Law enforcement doesn't have time to deal with it.  I forward a copy of the email to the abuse department of the ISP were it came from and leave it at that.