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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: Office Of The Senate <jase20009@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mr.andybenson@9.cn
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:11:30 -0300
Subject:



Office Of The Senate House
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Committee on Foreign Payment
(Resolutions Panel on Contract Payment)
Ikoyi-Lagos, Nigeria.
Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
Your Ref: FGN/WPL/QXL

Attention Beneficiary:

Congratulations as we bring to your notice your Senate Donation Grant
from the office of the senate. Your email address attached drew the
lucky winning number and you have emerge the beneficiary of $800.000.00
USD(Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars) in cash credited to code number
(M17269). Be inform that your Donation funds of $800.000.00 USD has
been deposited in our affiliated bank. You are advice to go ahead and
contact the bank for the transfer of your total funds which by now has
already been encoded in a bank transfer code. Once again congratulation.

All you need to do now is to visit the Transfering bank with the
details below to enable them commence with the transfer:

CONTACT DETAILS TO THE BANK
==============================
BANK NAME:Oceanic Bank International PLC
BANK ADDRESS:Waterfront Plaza, 270 Ozumba Mbadiwe Avenue,
P. O. Box 75073, Victoria Island, Lagos,Nigeria.
DEPARTMENT: Accounts Department.
FINICIAL/PUBLIC RELATION MANAGER: Mr. Andy Benson
TELEPHONE: {+234}-7061-927-040
EMAIL: mr.andybenson03@8u8.hk

PROVIDE THE BANK WITH THE BELOW DETAILS FOR TRANSFER PROCEEDINGS:
================================
[1]. Full Names:
[2]. Home Address:
[3.] Age.
[4]. Sex:
[5]. Occupation:
[6]. Phone Number:
[7]. Nationality:
[8]. Country:
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When sending an email to the accounts department you should note the
following. You should write the bank and let them know you wish to
Transfer your donation funds to your account. You should supply them
with the encoded transfer code worth $800.000.00 USD (M17269) Again the
code is M17269

Remember that after they must have opened up a new bank account for
you. You will then be able to login and transfer your money from online
to your country. Note that you only have a deadline of two weeks from
now to complete the transfer of your prize money.Therefore you
shouldact as quickly as possible.

Once again congratulations and Enjoy Your Funds.

Kindest Regards,
(Sen). David Mark
Senate President.

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FINEP - Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos



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