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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: Barrister Emmanuel <ken_emma17@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <ken_emmanuelll@yahoo.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:18:42 +0100
Subject: I Need Your Assistance.To Transfer Of $18.5 Million Dollars.



LEGITIMATE CHAMBER CONSULTANT.
OFFICE LAW CHAMBERS BENIN REP. RUE 18 KING VICTORIA GARDENCOTONOU REP DU BENIN
E-mail ken_emmanuelll@yahoo.de Tel: +229 97 130 162







Transfer Of $18.5 Million Dollars.



Dear Friend, I am Barrister Ken Emmanuel,the attorney at law to Late Dr. Hamid Ayed,a national of your country, who used to work as the Director of Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Produits Pétroliers (SONACOP)Oil Company in Benin Republic West Africa Here in after shall be Referred to as my client.

Unfortunately, on Friday, December 23th , 14:22 GMT,my client, wife and their only daughter perished in an plane crash along Banjul express road on there way back to their home in Cotonou.Here is the air crash website onfiltered= www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/ without a written or oral WILL and since 2003 nobody has operated on this account again hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you for your Assistance,I have contacted you to assist in Repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank here. These huge deposits were lodged particularly, with the CONTINENTAL BANK BENIN REP, where the Deceased had an account valued at about $18.5 million dollars. The Bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in Locating the relatives for over 4 years now I seek your consent To present you as the next of kin so that the proceeds of this account valued at $18.5 million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can Share the money.60% to me and 40% to you I will procure all Necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this Deal through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. And the way we are going to achieve this is I will need the following information from you, Your Full Name and Address,.....Your Age, Occupation and Position,.....Your Telephone and Mobile for Communication Purpose......Best Regards,Barrister Ken Emmanuel.
ASSOCIATE TO OFFICE LAW CHAMBERS BENIN REP.


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