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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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Fraud email example:

From: DR TUNDE HENRY <drthenry9@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:07:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: FROM DR TUNDE HENRY / Urgent Rsponsed



FROM DR TUNDE HENRY
BOND BANK BENIN
Avenue Clozel, 03 BP 596 Cotonou,
Republique du Benin

Dear Sir/Ma.

RE: TRANSFER OF (USD 26 MILLION)

I want to transfer to overseas ($26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six million United States Dollars) from BOND BANK BENIN, Benin. I have the courage to ask for your assistance to handle this important and confidential business to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this funds quitely.


I am Dr Tunde Henry the Bill of excharge manager in BOND BANK BENIN ,Benin and personal confidant to Dr. Ravindra F. Shah, unfortunately died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula Parikh-Shah in the tragic plane crash of Union Transport Africaines Flight Boeing 727 in Cotonou, Benin republic on the December 25, 2003. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting the below website
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/.

Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died December 25, 2003 without having any beneficiary to his assets including his account here in BENIN which he opened in a BOND BANK BENIN in the year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and developement of his company before his untimely death in 2003. The amount involved is (USD 26,000.000.00 USD) Twenty six million United States Dollars and no other
person knows about this account.

I am contacting you for me to transfer this funds to your account as the beneficiary, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money cannot be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars
and the former owner of the a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner and from American too, and as such the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.

However, I am revealing this to you with belief in God that you will never let me down in this business.You are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be used for the transfer The Identification pages of your international passport or Drivers license.

I need your full co-operation to make this work because the management of the Bank 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.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 40% of the total amount, 60% will be for me.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my Email or you call me on phone.

Yours' faithfully,
Dr Tunde Henry
Call me for more info. + 229-061092
E-mail - drtunde2@voila.fr





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