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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: Milton Mukuku <milton_mukuku1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: milton_mukuku@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Homsey;Inheritance Transfer/Investment


MR MILTON MUKUKU
AUDIT AND ACCOUNT UNIT
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK BENIN(ADBB)
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC.


My Dearest Homesey

Compliments and my pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I
am
Mr Milton Mukuku ,the director incharge of audit and account unit of
the
African Development Bank Benin (ADBB) in Cotonou-Benin Republic.I deem
it
fit to contact you at this time regarding a discovered dormant account
fund
will benefit both of us at the end,if parties involved will take
restraints
and maintain absolute secrecy,honesty and intergrity,on and during the
process of this fund transfer until confirmed succesfully delivered
into
your nominated bank account.

I got your contact in my zeal and search for a reputable and reliable
person/partner to particularly assist me to claim the fund in question.

During auditing,in my bank at the end of last fiscal year, We
discovered a
floating sum OF USD.$28.1M (Twenty Eight Million One Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) in a dormant account belonging to a late
customer and
an international businessman, Mr Richard Denn from the United States of
America based here in Benin Republic who was involved in the December
26th
Benin plane crash with his entire family. I kept this information
secret and
confidential within my executive office in the bank to enable me
arrange a
partner to submit claims to my bank foreign remittance unit and let the
fund
be transfered through a trustworthy person whom shall present himsef to
my
bank as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased customer.

Attached is the BBC link page to the crash;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm

Our investigations so far clearly reveals that there is no immediate
survivor or even a relation to the deceased and as such,there is no
immediate next of kin for further claims of the deceased fund as we
have
long been expecting someone to come forward with an application, over
the
past few years. Further informations/verifications from reliable
sources too
have confirmed that the deceased customer supposed next of kin were all
in
the plane crash with him.

This fund is now ready for transfer into any tendered foreign account,
whose
owner will be portrayed to our bank as the bonafide beneficiary and a
next
of kin to the deceased customer.The foreign account owner will impost
himself appropriately as the next of kin to the deceased and respond
positively like a true next of kin who wishes to speedup the release
and
transfer process of his inherited fund.Kindly be aware too that if the
over-due fund, if not claimed by the end of this quarter, the National
Treasury and Reserve of Benin will take over the ownership of the fund
in
line with the National Edict Act of 1979, as UNCLAIMED BILL. We do not
want
this to happen as it will not augur to our best interest, having worked
all
our lives in the banking sector, that is why I contacted you for us to
do
the deal together with absolute confidence, so that you will be
portrayed to
our bank as the bonafide beneficiary and an immediate next of kin to
the
deceased customer.

I will give you further directives,advice and all needed informations
required for this transaction as soon as I receive your positive
response.
Similarly,if you accept to carry out this transaction with me,i have
resolved offering to you 30% of the total sum as commission, extra 10%
of
all proceeds to be generated from subsequent profit-viable investments
projects and you will be compensated with an executive office in the
project.

We will invest 50% of our shares into your firm if you already have one
provided that is profit orientated.5% of the total fund will be set
aside to
reimburse all expenses incurred in the course of this transaction. This
transfer will automatically be affected within 14 bank working days.

Be rest assured that with the underground work that I have laid so
far,this
transaction carries no risk and no extra burdens on your part, except
for
the above mentioned nominal roles you are required to fulfill, and
similarly
you will be required to maintain absolute information secrecy
throughout the
duration of this transaction,because discussing and disclosing it with
a
third party might jeopardise the entire transaction. I will give you
directives and all needed information as soon as I receive your
positive
response.Kindly understand that i could not carry out this fund
transfer on
my own alone, based on the simple facts that I am still a civil servant
and
presently bank staffs and this office excludes us from operating
foreign
accounts,moreover, conducting such magnanimous transaction from the
same
place where we belong to will raise eyebrows on our side and the truth
is
that this fund
belongs to a foreigner,and as such demands same as next of kin.

I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this
project
as this will greatly enrich the both of us at the end. Please you are
required to reply this message as a matter of neccessity.

Best regards,
MR MILTON MUKUKU.

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