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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: "Louis Boni" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <louisboni@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 22:22:10 +0300
Subject: Private Message!

Dearest One,

Complement of the day to you overethere, and I hope you are in good health condition.

May God bless you as you help me and cooperate. Well! I believe you may be a little confused about me as a stranger and having trusted in you, but my late father was a believer who confided much in foreign people and he thought me the same way with lot of faith. However, I want you to have the same faith in me as I have in you.First of all, my father was into diamond trade before his untimely death caused by his jealous associate in business so please be assured that his fund is legitimate and what ever I`m doing with you concerning my inheritance is 100% risk free.


My mother died when I was some month old she is an American and my late father did not re-marry because he loved my mother so much that her death was a big tragedy to him, and not willing to have me raised by another woman, he raised me on his own till death took him away from me.Before my father died, he disclosed to me at his sick bed that he deposited a trunk box containing the sum of US$2,350.000.00 (Two million three hundred and fifty thousand US dollars) with a security company in Cotonou Benin republic for safe keeping.

The content of the box was not declared to the security company as it was only said to be family valuables in other to prevent it from been looted by corrupt security company officials in Africa. The security company is self storage with access code number so everything is safe.My late father warned me not to disclose it to anyone in the country about the deposit cause he was worried about my life and my only inheritance in life, I did exactly what he asked of me so no one knows about it, all I need is your honest and sincere assistance.The security company has assured me they can deliever the trunk box to my trustee and beneficiary at any designated country as they operate exactly like UPS or DHL but in their case they are a bit different with their diplomatic delievery through a diplomat who will travel with the trunk box to ensure it`s safely deliever to you.They will confirm to you when they will arrive to meet you for delievery and you will check to verify that you are delivered the right trunk boxI`m


I will be investing this money under your guidance and supervision, you will handle the investment while I continue my education in other to fufile my promise to my late father that I will obtain my degree in education. I will fully join you in the investmentsoon as i finish my education.I will like us to invest the money in real estate management and buying of properties in your country and I`m sure my late father`s spirit will be happy to see us suceeding together doing his planed work before wicked people took his life oh God of mercy.Anyway, I counted so much on you to start my new life in your country soon. Until I come to you I wount be happy alone here facing all this suffering.

My dear, I will connect and introduce you to the security company immediately I recieve your responce, to ask them what I need and how to transfer my inheritance to you.Soon as you have confirm to me that you have recieve the trunk box, you will get little money out from the trunk box for me to pay for my travel allowance and ticket to meet with you in your countryI want you to assure me that you will be honest and sincere to me both now and after.My dear, I want you to keep every thing about this transaction secrete because it is between me and you, I want you to also understand here that the security company people do not know the content of the box because my late father deposited it in their custody for safe keeping as a family valuables which means that they do not know that the trunk box contains money.I want us to have confidence in each other so that we will meet soon for our plans, Please, Don't betray me because this is my future, destiny and my only hope of living a better life in this world unde

I also like to read back from you with your contact information and your full assurance, I want you to assure me that you will help me and that you will not betray me because this is my life, My only hope in this life, My future and my destiny, Just give me your assurance because I`ll send authorization letter to you that you will send to the security company to introduce you to them as my guardian.

please send me a mail to my private email for quick responce: louisboni@msn.com

I am waiting to hear from you as soon as possible and I shall send you full details of this transaction soon as i read from you.

Thanks and God bless you.

Best regards.

Louis Boni

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