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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: "Mrs. Aliz Solange Dennes " <alizdennes@tiscali.cz>
Reply-To: akakwame@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:57:02 +0100
Subject: Re: The Airport Authority detected that trunk boxes.

Beneficiary,
I am BRIGADIER GENERAL Nana Kwame of the ECOWAS Presidential Special
Initiative. I am mailing you in respect, of the present development
going on here in my Continent Africa. I decided to contact you, after
much investigation which was carried out by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and the Ecowas joint Police task force, to make
sure that Ecowas countries are free of these fraudulent activities,
which is going on here in Africa and for our continent to bear a good
name.

The Airport Authority detected that trunk boxes after been scanned
contains funds on your name, has been tempered on, were been smuggled
into the country by foreign Personnel who were on transit from United
Kingdom.

These men were trying to enter the country with the trunk boxes, when
the airport authority detected that these boxes contains, some huge
amount of United State Dollars. After much investigation we found out
that these men were among those men, spoiling the good name of Africa.

They opened up to us that, they actually work with a Banking Financial
Organization, before their dismissal and used the opportunity to
perpetuate their crimes, they told us that the funds inside the boxes
was to be transferred to you, but now they planned to turn back on you
and decided to take the money all to themselves out of the country.
Welater found out on the investigation that was carried that, these
men are truly members of a well established organization to act on
their criminal activities.

As I write you this mail now, the three(3) men that were caught are
now in the custody of the Benin Police Service over here in our Ecowas
state country Republic of Benin, while we are trying to track the
others left, because they have proved to us that they belong to one
organization. That is why we have to reach you by your mail address
that was tagged in the boxes, so we can make the arrangement on
delivery of the recovered boxes by a United Nation Diplomatic
Personnel.


Your response will be very much appreciated as soon as you have
received this email. Thank you for your kind attention, for us to make
sure our beloved countries in Ecowas, bears a good name. Please in
your reply include your

A: FULL NAMES
B: ADDRESS
C: DIRECT CONTACT PHONE NUMBER
D: SCANNED COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR ANY RELEVANT
IDENTIFICATION PASSPORT.

As this information will be required, by the authorities in Benin to
draft the new change of ownership in your name as the rightful owner
of the funds in our custody and also to verify the information given
to us because the documentations covering the boxes have been tampered
on.

Regards,
Brigadier General Nana Kwame.

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