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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: "DR. GREG JOHNSON" <info.gregj@zing.vn>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:38:25 +0400
Subject: Governments has return the sum of us $10.000.00USD each to 20 victims

Date: 24- 05 2011
>From The Desk
Of: Dr. Greg Johnson
Financial Activities Monitored.
Cotonou –BENIN
ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

We got to know about your person via Western Union/Money Gram drive that
was conducted to investigate all the money that was sent to Republic of
Benin between January 2010 to 2011. In the cause of our investigation it
has come to our knowledge that you are involved in the claim of FUNDS and
have paid out some money to different unknown people and we have been able
to come up with some good result about the people that have extorted money
from you illegally.

In case you are currently dealing with any one of them regarding your
fund, we urge you to stop further contact with them as you are taking a
very big risk and it might interest you to know that you will never get
the
fund from them as they have nothing to offer you .The hoodlums will
continue coming up with expenses and thereby requesting for money from you
until you go Bankrupt.

I wish to inform you of the new decision taking by the Governments to
return the sum of us $10.000.00USD to 20 victims from the money which was
recovered from some of the impostors . In order to follow the normal court
rules you are advice to contact me back with the payment details and all
your informations so that i will forward it to Barrister.Tony Jaja
Designation: Legal Practitioner & Senior Advocate Address: B.H.C. S Office
Chambers carry 12 Cotonou Avenue Ro presidencies BENIN and Indicate your
telephone numbers and resident Address while contacting me because
contacting the barrister is not Important.

Note you are to bear the cost of the fee for the affidavit of Guarantee
$30 - and on the confirmation of the affidavit from the BENIN High court
you are to submit the affidavit to us via email: ( info.gregj@zing.vn )
along with account information on where you will receive the payment. And
you are require to send the requested fee with the below details with my
name:

1.RECEIVER NAME---Kelvin O. Omokwe
2.COUNTRY-- BENIN REPUBLIC.
3.CITY---COTONOU .Add :--NO 123 SEGBEYA cotonou -Benin.
5.TEXT QUESTION--what colure
6.TEXT ANSWER---white
7.Amount---$30 -

Best regards as we are waiting to receive the duplicate copy of your
affidavit of guarantee and account information to enable us release the
money to you. Please as soon as you have send the requested fee, try to
forward us the MTCN/ Western union Payment slip.

Waiting to hear from you soon.
Best regards,
Dr. Greg Johnson

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