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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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Fraud email example:

From: "roland_benneth1@terra.es" <roland_benneth1@terra.es>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:18:07 +0100 (MET)
Subject: From Mr. Roland Benneth.


Dear Friend,

I sincerely hope that after you read this mail you will respond to my call.
let me start by introducing myself my name is Roland Benneth. I am 70 years
old, a British living in West Africa. I am a businessman and own two
companies here in Ouagadougou, married with two children. My wife and two
children had a fatal car accident subsequently died six years ago. Before
this incident my life internally depend on my business for self sustenance
as well, for I appreciate life as well never really cared about other
values in life since the loss of my family, I have found a new
philanthropic desire to assist helpless needies.

I have been dedicating my service in helping orphans in motherless homes; I
visit and donate money to orphans in Sudan, America And some Asian
countries. Before I became ill, I kept some money, Ten Million Three
Hundred Thousand dollars ($10.3million) to be precise in a long term
deposit account in a Finance House.

Presently, I'm suffering from an illness and hospitalized my doctor told me
I have prostate cancer that I living by grace, few months to live. It is my
last wish to see that I disburse the money I kept to charity organizations?
Because so much of my wealth has been plundered by relatives and friends
since my protracted illness, hence I cannot live with the agony of
entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them since the funds in the
Finance House is the last money that I have left. Right now I am partially
stranded in the hospital due to the nature of my sickness so I am appealing
to you to help, assist me collect ,retrieve the deposit from the Finance
House and disburse or use it for philanthropic purposes amongst charitable
institutions.

I would want you to use your discretion to disburse the money and keep 20%
of it for your gratuity. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the
money for any cost you might have incurred during the process of collecting
and distributing the money to charity organizations. May the good Lord
bless you and your Family.
Please reply to this mail as I can only communicate through my laptop which
is by my bed, as soon as I get your response I shall then give you the
necessary information you need to collect this money.If you really want to
asist me please send in your information to proceed:

FULL NAME:
AGE:
SEX:
PHONE:
CONTACT ADDRESS:

God bless you.
Mr. Roland Benneth.





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