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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: Dr Bello Salicko <dr_bellosalicko01@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <dr_bellosalicko@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 17:33:31 +0100
Subject: This email is highly confidential and important.


From Dr Bello Salicko
Minister Of Works and Finance
177 BP RUE DE AKPAKPA
COTONOU,
BENIN REPUBLIC.

Good Day,Greetings to you. With due respect, I am Dr Bello Salicko, the interim Minister of Works and Finance Cotonou,Benin Republic. I have contacted you to seek your assistance for the transfer of an unclaimed contract funds which accrued from a deliberate over invoicing of some contracts awarded to a now deceased foreign contractor Late Mr Andreas Schranner(A German Property Consultant).
Pls Check this site for more understanding: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stmBy virtue of my position here in the ministry, I have access to some contract approval information concerning a contract which was executed by this contractor attached to the Ministry of Works.This contract has long been executed and commissioned,but this over invoiced payment of the total sum of $27 Million USDollars is still outstanding and unclaimed due to circumstances which I will explain to you in the course of your correspondence. Owing to the demise of the contractor and by virtue of my position here at the ministry of works, I have decided to use all the resources within my power to retrieve this outstanding contract payment since the contractor whose name was used to process the contract payment approval has long died and no relatives of his has ever come forward for the claims of the outstanding payment. We have made several attempts to possibly trace any of the late contractors's relatives who will assume the responsibility of coming forward for the claims of this outstanding payment,but all to no avail.

It is never my desire to see the above matter treated this way hence I conducted a search that will assist me in first and foremost trace any relative of the deceased and also ensure the safety of the funds.I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by the late contractor Late Mr Andreas Schranner, because if a relative is not found within seven weeks then the Public Trustee will move and liquidate the entire estate of the late contractor including this unpaid contract amounts on the account of having been unserviceable for a long period of time.I look forward to your co operation and your extreme discretion in this matter. Until such a time this matter is settled, I will continue to work with you in any way possible to see that the outstanding payment is released and transferred in your name as a bonafide next of kin to the late contractor Mr Andreas Shranner as I shall be presenting you to the ministry of works. We shall within the course of the next few days plan and execute how best to pursue this matter of mutual interest with a view to cost effectiveness.I have all the necessary legal documents that will be used to back up any claim we may make. All I require is your honest co operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of law.If interested please respond and do not be destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career even if you do not approve of my proposal. If you are interested, please get in touch with me through my private email to enable us discuss this further.Respectfully,Dr Bello Salicko
(MINISTER OF WORKS AND FINANCE).

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dr_bellosalicko@yahoo.fr
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