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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: Henry Boniface <henryboniface_1@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:39:03 -0700
Subject: Awaiting your kind Response

Dearest Friend,

I am Henry Boniface, I want to seek your assistance after my discovery
during auditing in my bank as I'm the manager of Bill and Exchange at
the Foreign Remittance Department in Banque Centrale des Etats de
l'Afrique de l'Ouest (BCEAO).

In my department we discovered a sum of $31.300.000 million in an
account that belonged to one of our foreign customer. Upon maturity, we
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no
response.

After some months, we sent a reminder and finally discovered that our
customer died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I
found out that he did not leave a will and all attempts to trace his
next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the deceased
person did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents,
including his bank deposit paperwork.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided as the head of my
department to make this business proposal to you and release the money
to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement, and you will be given 35% of the total amount,
60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring. after the transfer is
made to your country / account since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.

We will conclude this operation within 21 banking days based on the
amount of co-operation you will contribute.

We will start the first transfer with Eleven million [$11,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine.Because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will
meet up with instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved
with me in this business.

I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down. With
my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this
money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with
assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in
your country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents
of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any
place and to build confidence, you can come immediately to discuss with
me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence
and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the
money going into the account.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you
that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will
use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward
transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from
the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the
conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount,
60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might
have incurred during the process of transferring.

Thank you for your understanding as i await your urgent response to me
give you more details don't forget to give me those information below
before we can go ahead in this business/project.



Your private telephone number

Your private E-mail address

Your profession

Your country

Your age


Yours faithfully,

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