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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: "Benson angie" <angie.benson2006@latinmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:19:43 +0100 (CET)
Subject: PROPOSAL


Greetings to you,
Excuse me for my bad English but I try to explain you my story.

I am Mrs. Angie Benson of Ivorian nationality and I live in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). This email that you receive presently is not the fact of the chance but my choice which went on your famous person. I had been married with Mr. Benson Uzumma, a South African businessman established in Ivory Coast for more than 17 years and which is deceased today in the year 2002. We lived together as husband and wife during fifteen years. He’s deceased continuations of a short disease. Before its death we were two believing enthusiasts and since then I decided more to don’t get marriage so much I had been affected. I remind to you that during these years spent to Abidjan, my husband had set up as a powerful businessman so that they (him and his Swiss associates) had assembled companies of bearing trade on the coffee and the cocoa. Before his death, my husband had made a bearing deposit on the sum of 5,000,000.00 euros (Five million euros) in a banking institution here in Abidjan on my behalf.

Recently following a medical check-up, my doctor announced news to me serious concerning my health; it informed me that I was corroded by a cancer and that it doubted extremely that I live more than one year. I ensure you that my distress is larger following this bad news. I undergone at present several treatments of chemotherapy which tire me enormously. In this situation, I decided to give these funds to a person likely to be able to expensive carry out my wish which is to create structures to accommodate stripped and especially the forsaken children orphans or because I was not likely to give birth to and I believe that it is convenient that I help children which did not require to come in the world. This decision, I took it because since my bed of hospital, I hear children cry and being a woman I feel great empty in my existence and also because I do not have any heir with whom to bequeath these funds.

I also believe that it is God who calls me with this act because each day that he makes I feel this call of his share and I cannot remain indifferent even confined to bed. Reason for which I turn to you so that together we can make succeed this project which I would please see starting before I do not leave this world. Very soon while I receive your answer, I will give you the contact of the bank here in Ivory Coast so that you can come into contact with the persons in charge so that they can tell you the most suitable means so that you can enter in possession of these funds. I will also publish you a letter of authority which will prove to you that I benefit current of these funds. I will want that you supported me in this action of charity which I will like to make. My happiness at present is that I think of having lived a life with the fear of God the powerful whole. Any delay in your answer will give me a reason to contact another person with because the watch plays against us.

Be reassured because you will receive in reward of your engagement 8% of the totality of the total sum and 2% for the possible expenditure which you will be able to carry out in this business.
I hope to receive your answer very soon.
God bless you
Mrs. Angie Benson


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