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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: james allen <"WWW."@proof.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: james allen <jamesallen16054@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 08:13:41 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear,

UBA Benin Corporate Headquarters.
United bank for Africa remittance office.
Carrefour des 3 banques,
Avenue Jean Paul II 01 BP 2020 Cotonou,

Dear,

Thanks for your mail i need your honest and your assistance to execute this transaction under your kind control because i have the opportunity of

transferring the fund into your account and I want you to assure me of your capability of handling the transfer with trust and honest by giving me the

following information about yourself:
1) Name:
2) Country:
3) Address:
4) Tel:
5) Age:
6) Sex:
7) Occupation Status:


Base on this I will advise you to feel free all is well, I studied this transaction very well before contacting you for assistance. I have served this bank

for so many years now and I deem it is necessary to utilize this opportunity of the present unclaimed sum of fifteen million three hundred thousand dollars money in the account sent in-conjunction with

the first proposal I sent to you to help myself and my family through the investment I will establish in your country with my percentage in the transaction.

(a) Before the death of our deceased customer he true next of kin was not indicated to the board of directors of the bank because of the top secrecy and

confidentiality of the transactions which our late customer transacted with the various governments in West Africa.

(b) Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the bank, it is therefore impossible for the board of directors of the bank to

verify the next of kin as well as the true inheritor of the fund.

(c) And for the above reasons the managements of the bank authorized me officially as the Director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of this bank

to verify the next of kin to our deceased customer. Therefore, the bank will always abide by my official directions through the official authorization

bestowed on me. And for this reasons you have nothing to fear as your interest
and identity will be legally protected.

More so, the only information required from you by the bank is your banking data as contained in the official application which I will give you to send to

our bank after your immediate response because the receipt of your application is the commencement of the official process of this transaction.

Now I will like to use this opportunity to tell you the detail information concerning our deceased customer. The deceased account holder with our bank was

Dr. Erin Jacobson, an American national who unfortunately lost his life,And his entire family from France who naturalized here in BENIN REPUBLIC for (16) years. He held account number UBA4934109, ROUTING No: 91002211 with our


bank. HE died in acute leukemia at a level considered chronic, December 23 2009 after he deposit with our bank 2007 January 26 and his account has been

dormant and nobody has applied to our bank for the release of this money to him or her as the next of kin.

I have spent time and made all necessary enquirers to find out if I can get any of his relative so that
they will come for the claims but to no avail. The banking ethics here doesn't allow the money to stay more than 7 years because the fund will be recalled to

our bank's treasury as abandoned fund.

I decided to contact you and use your name for the claim, as you are going to act as his business associate and we get the fund transferred into your

account. Honestly i have to let you know that i got your contact from the international directory, Of which i pray over it before i decided to contact on

this email for an assistance towards my proposal so that it will help me and my family, because of the criticle condition poor economies nature of my

country.

Many Banks here use to confiscate a lot of foreigners money in there various Banks after the fund lying dormant for years. We Poor Bankers don’t gain

anything if the fund is confiscated. I got this opportunity and decided to contact you, for the mutual benefit of our both families because I
don’t want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund since nobody is coming for it.

As the Director in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of this bank, I have studied this transaction very carefully and I have noted that there are no

risks involved. I am here to protect all your interests in this transaction until this money hits your account. Since I am here I shall be giving you all the

developmental information from the bank as soon as this transaction commence.

I know that you will not disappoint me when this money enters your account, I have all my hope of life survival with my family in this transaction. We must

hurry up with this transaction so that our bank and the government shall not claim and inherit this money because it has over-stayed.

After the bank have approve your application as next of kin to our late customer I will fly down in your country for investment with my own share but I will
advise you to keep this transaction as a top secret because no body again knows about it except you and I.

For more information you can contact me on phone (+229 99250599) so that we can talk.
Thanks

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