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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 about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Chilaka Odilo" <chilakaodilo@msn.com>
Reply-To: chilakaodilo@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:51:33 +0000
Subject: From Mr Chilaka Odilo.

FROM DR CHILAKA ODILO.
DIRECTOR OF AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
ECO BANK, COTONOU, BENIN REPUBLIC.

Dear Friend,

It is a pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day. I am Dr Chilaka
Odilo, the director in charge of auditing and accounting Unit of ECO BANK in
Cotonou-Benin Republic. I and my colleagues deem it fit to contact you
regarding a transaction that will favour both of us at the end, and i got
your contact in my search for a reputable and reliable person to help me
claim the fund in question.

We discovered the sum of eight million one hundred thousand United States
Dollars (USD $8.1M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The fund
has been lying in a suspense account without anybody coming to put claim
over the money since the death of the account owner late Mr. Abu Abdullah a
lebanese, who was involved in the December 25th 2003 Benin plane crash.

Here is the air crash website=
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foreign account whose owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer of the bank. The foreign account owner will impost himself as the
next of kin to the deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin
who wishes to speed up the release and transfer of his inherited fund.

If the over due fund if not claimed by the end of this first quarter of the
year, the government of the Federal Republic of Benin will take over the
ownership of the fund in line with the Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not
want the government to take over the ownership of this money, that is why I
contacted you for us to do the deal together, so that we will portray you as
the bonafide next of kin to the deceased whose name is Mr. Abu Abdullah.

If you accept to carry out this project with us, we will offer you 30% of
the total sum, while I and my colleagues involved will take 70% of the total
sum. Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly effect
the transfer within eight working days.

Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra
responsibilities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and normally
you will be required to maintain absolute information and absolute secrecy
throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing it with a
third party might jeopardise the entire transaction.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this project
as this will greatly enrich the both of us at the end.

Best regards,

Dr Chilaka Odilo



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