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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. Roland Gildas" <lddud@indd.es.cx>
Reply-To: <roland.gildas123@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:56:34 -0700
Subject: Good Day From Office Of National Contract Payment Commission!!!!


National Contract Payment Commission
Administration Liaison Building, 02 BP 1463 Jericho,
Cotonou, Benin. Republic.
Hello Dear
I am Mr. Roland Gildas, former executive director of (ECOWAS) Inter-Govern=
mental Action Group against Money Laundering, other Financial related crime=
s in West Africa. We were in a Joint Operation Services with the associatio=
n of African central banks, Regional Securities and Exchange Commissions et=
c.
I was also in charge of Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Lau=
ndering in West Africa between May 2006 to February 2014, It was based on m=
y accountability and capability during my tenure that I was recently mandat=
ed by the President of the Republic of Benin to look into financial transac=
tion records of Banks, Security companies and Financial houses in Republic =
of Benin.
May I inform you that during one our investigation and verification exerci=
se conducted so far, we have discovered large amounts of looted money worth=
million of dollars deposited in different domestic and Foreign Banks abr=
oad by some corrupt top directors working in the Republic of Benin Governme=
nt, who wanted to used their privileged position to acquire wealth before =
their retirement from civil service job, but their in-experience to handle=
the processing of transferring these funds to their preferred private ban=
k account abroad led to abandonment of these funds in several banks both h=
ere before they proceeded on retirements.
My colleague has mandated me to solicit for your urgent business assistanc=
e to help us accommodate the sum of ($ 6, 000 000.00) Six Million United St=
ates Dollars in your Bank account, This money is already floating unclaime=
d in a Bank here. Therefore we want to use this interim opportunity to make=
little wealth for our respective families before the end of our assignment.
Therefore I need your name,phone number, your company's name if any and a=
ddress to be included in our list of approved Foreign Contractors to be pai=
d. To this regard, your company or your name will be processed by us as a l=
egitimate unpaid foreign contractor who executed contract in our country. =
Basically this is the chiefly reason why I contacted you, anticipating pos=
itively that you will be sincere to co-operate with us to actualize this go=
al.
Please if you are interested, kindly and swiftly acknowledge receipt of th=
is letter by e-mail first, upon which I will unveil my private phone number=
to you. Also endeavor to send to me your direct phone numbers at your earl=
iest convenient. This transaction is 100% risk free.
Finally, we are looking forward to doing this business with you and we do =
solicit your utmost honesty and confidentiality in seeing this this transa=
ction off a timely as possible and you are free to contact me through my pr=
ivate e-mail: (roland.gildas123@gmail.com)
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.
Mr. Roland Gildas

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