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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: "mikeben@terra.es" <mikeben@terra.es>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:55:19 +0100 (MET)
Subject: SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS



ATTENTION SIR/MADAM,
ZENITHBANK/UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United
Nations To Benin Bank to pay 150 scam victims $1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION
UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed
victims to be paid this amount, get back to as soon as possible for the
immediate payments of your $1,000,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the
last U.N. meetings held at Cotonou Benin Republic, it was alarmed so much
by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various
individuals to the Cotonou scams artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction
with the Cotonou Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators
$1,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Cotonou, the
payments are to be supervised by the United Nations'Officials and the Benin
Bank as the corresponding paying bank is ZENITH BANK.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has
been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still have
more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $1,000,000.00 each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was
arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not
to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so
ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other
criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application
as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you
Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS or ATM CARD PAYMENT. I shall feed you
with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.


Yours faithfully,
Mr Mike Ben.
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $1,000,000.00






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