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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: "Mr PAUL James," <trabest@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: "Mr PAUL James," <fundtransfer@foxmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:01:37 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Urgent Attention my dear


 
Urgent Attention my dear ,

My name is Mr Jan Eliasson, I am a crime fighter and Deputy
Secretary-General of the United Nations. I was mandated to come to
Benin-Africa to investigate frauds that are being committed here in Benin
at intervals. I am presently working with the Benin inspector general of
police, some FBI and CIA agents to ensure that the perpetrators of this
Evil activities are urgently apprehended.

I am very honored to be
invited to eradicate fraud completely in Africa which I have vowed to do
without any fear or favor," but it baffles me to discover that your
impending funds from Africa, which was intercepted, has not been released
to you till this moment after being cleared by the Benin Presidency,
Federal Ministry of Justice and the Finance Ministry. It is also clearly
indicated that you have made several attempts and spend much money to
transfer your funds to your account but to no avail.

With the help of the Benin Police, special FBI and CIA agents in Benin, We
have managed to apprehend some scam syndicates who made some confessional
statements and indicted Ex-Governor of Central Bank of Benin (Professor
Benjamine Otaka and his successor Dr. Michael Oduwah. They have confessed
how they have impersonated the names of some UN Executive members like MR
BAN KI-MOON, Mrs. Inga-Britt Ahlenius
and Ms.Carman L. Lapointe Lapointe Mrs Paulette Beal to defraud their
victims.

Please, we have noticed that Benin are very ruthless and have defrauded so
many foreigners, we have also discovered the irregularities in foreign
payment files intentionally masterminded by these scammers and urgently
called the attention of the World Bank President and Mr. Bank Ki-Moon and
they both came to a resolution that the Federal Government of Benin must
pay a total amount of $4.8M to each of the people whose names were found
in the list till this irregularity has been corrected.

This approved amount must be made available to all beneficiaries within
the next 5 banking days or an Economic Sanction will be placed on Benin by
the UN and other international Organizations.

NOTE: On no account must you be requested to pay any fee by any Bank or
individual in Benin. The only fee you must pay to receive your fund which
covers every other fee is a UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE OF
$50.This must be paid directly to my office here for the procurement and
endorsement of all your fund approval/release documents by the UN.

WARNING!!!!!!. The UN has never for once sent any Diplomat to Benin for
any payment. IF you have any dealings with anyone claiming to be any of
these persons, please STOP immediately or we shall cancel this payment of
USD$10.5M that has already been approved to you. Note that, the UN POLICE
FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE is must and very important, so take note of
that.

NB: Every communication should be made through the e-mail
address below :( fundtransfer@foxmail.com )
on how to send the $50 only.


NOTE: We have asked for the above UN POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE to
make available the most complete and up-to date records possible.
Immediately Contact me via E-mail for instructions on how to send the
$50.any other contact or payment you make apart from the UN
POLICE FUND CLEARANCE REPORT FEE is at your own risk. WE will like your
respond to this call to avoid any further delaying and when replying this
mail, include your,

full name,
phone number,
position and address so that we can register it here.

kindly take urgent action in
sending the $50 through western union only enable immediate release of
your funds,

THE DETAILS TO SEND THE MONEY IS:

RECEIVER NAME:JOSEPH EZE
CITY: COTONOU
COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC
AMOUNT: US$50.00 USD
TEXT Q: A
ANSWER: B
MTCN:......
SENDER NAME.....

You are therefore advised to comply immediately without further delay and
your funds will be released forthwith.

Thanks for your anticipated
compliance to this message.

Regards,
Mr PAUL James,
UN Deputy Secretary-General.
UN Crime Fighting Officer.

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