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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: "benson akuvi" <drbensonakuvi@latinmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:35:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: compensation


Dear Partner,

I am very sorry for the delay in responding to your mails. I had a
little internet problem but it is over now and I am glad I finally got hold
of you.I lost so many email addresses but I am trying to gather as much
as I can though with lot's of mix up.


I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting the fund
transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Paraguay. Presently I’m
in Paraguay for investment projects with my own share of the total sum

Meanwhile, I didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me
in transferring those funds despite that it failed us some how.Now
contact my secretary, his name is Mr John Adams and his email address is
mrjohnadams55@yahoo.fr Ask him to send you the total eight hundred
thousand dollars in a Certificate Bank Draft which I kept for your
compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this
matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and
get in touch with my secretary John Adams and instruct him where to
send the amount to you.



Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all that we went through at that time. In the moment, I am
very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new
partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded
instruction to the secretary on your behalf to receive that money, so feel
free to get in touch with him and he will send the amount to you without
any delay.

Regards
Dr Benson Akuvi



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