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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 Daniel Mensah <mrdaniel200505@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: mrdaniel2005@latinmail.com
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:27:24 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Reply Urgently


FROM: Mr.Daniel Mensah,

BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU BENIN.

RUE CLUB DE L' AMITIE,

0251 B.P. 1625 COTONOU,

BéNIN REPUBLIQUE.


My Dear Friend,


In Oder to transfer to overseas $28.5 million(USD)

from BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU BENIN,Bénin Republique.

I want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable

and honest person who will be capable and fit 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 Mr.Daniel Mensah, the accountant/auditor of

the above Finance Corporation in Cotonou,Bénin

Republique and personal confidant to Mr.Lius Rio Mendez

of Dominican Republic in Caribbean Island who died in

a Plane Crash accident(2002-04-19) on his way to

attend a weddind ceremony together with his wife and

only Child (Lius Jr).


Mr.Lius Rio Mendez, is From Dominican Republic in

Caribbean Island, and a prosperous Tobacco merchant,

he died in the year 2002 without having any

beneficiary to his assets including his account

here in Bénin which he opened in the above stated bank

in the year 2001 as his personal savings for the

purpose of expansion and developement of his company

in Africa before his untimely death in 2002.Until his

death,he was the president of the Dominican Tobacco

Exporters Association.


And from my Investigation,i found out that No other

person knows about this account because he(Mr.Lius Rio Mendez)

never knew that he is going to die so soon,

and so his purpose was not achieved. If i don't remit

this money immediately, it will get lost(may be it

will go into the pockets of the corrupt government

officials who will never use it for any reasonable

thing at all).I dont want to miss this opportunity

because it comes ones in a life time.


The amount involved is $28.5 million(USD)Twenty eight

million,five hundred United States Dollars and no

other person knows about this account. I am contacting

you for us to transfer this funds to your account as

the beneficiary,I want to first transfer

$16,000.000..00(Sixteen million USD) from this money

into a safe account abroad, after which we will

transfer the remaining (12.5M). I am only contacting

you as a foreigner because this money cannot be

approved to a local person here, without a valid

foreign international passport, but can only be

approved to any foreigner with valid international

passport or drivers license and foreign a/c, this is

because the money is in US Dollars and the former

owner of the a/c, Mr.Lius Rio Mendez is a foreigner 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.I

don't know you and have never seen you before,i only

got your contacts from an international directory

which my secretary provided for me. 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. Send also your

private telephone and fax number.


I need your full co-operation to make this work

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 keybank

official who is deeply involved with me in this

business.

I want to tell you that this transaction is 100% risk

free and legal because all the documents that will

back up this transaction will be available, so that no

body will question the fund when it is finaly

tranfered to your account.


At the conclusion of this business, you will be given

40% of the total amount and 60% will be for me. I look

forward to your earliest reply through this email.


Thanks for your time.


Your's faithfully,


Mr.Daniel Mensah




- Mr Daniel Mensah


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