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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr.Norbert Curl" <officedesk---1879@att.net>
Reply-To: i_m_f_benin2011@globomail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:55:04 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY.




Attention:Good Day

Provision of affidavit of claim certificate for legal cover/ protection of us$1:5m in favor of you. a meeting was held today with the federal executive council (FEC) headed by the *acting* president of the federal republic of Benin Dr. Good luck Jonathan as the president is presently hospitalized due to illness. The issue of your payment was raised in the meeting and the acting president has given authority to the IMF world regulatory office to make sure that the payment is being issued out to you as his tenure will not experience any form of foreign funds seizure.
 
The acting president in his speech made it clear to his fellow colleagues that this 2011 will experience fairness in government activities and also he has apologized for the way foreigners has being treated in trying to get what is due to them and has promised that it will be a thing of the past once you are ready to fulfill the obligations and co-operate with the IMF world regulatory office.
 
Your pending fund is worth $1:500,000.00usd (one million five hundred thousand united states dollars) which is to be fully remitted to you by this office.
 
After the meeting today with the *acting* president of the federal republic of Benin dr. Good luck Jonathan we have reduce the payment for the affidavit of claim clearance certificate to $56 so that you can meet up with the payment please you given only 24hours to do this payment so we can release your $1.5m usd in our care so we advice you to pay the $56 through the western union money transfer with the below information and send the payment details to me.
 
Receiver Name::::::: MR. NWEKWU MIRACLE
Country::::::::::::: Benin Republic
City ::::::::::::::: Cotonou
Text Question::::::: Good
Text Answer::::::::: Best
Amount:::::::::::::: $56
Mtcn:::::::::::::::: ?
Sendder::::::::::::: ?
 
Please go and send it immediately and send to me the payment details immediately  and call me with this number +229_98284176 ok, so Please note that your co-operation and maturity is highly needed on this issue for immediate release of your fund within 24 hour. We wait for your urgent response immediately today.
Honorable

thanks
Mr.Norbert Curl


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