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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: "Willem Jacobus" <willemjbuss@gmail.com>
Reply-To: willemjbuss@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:18:49 +0300
Subject: Greetings



Greetings,

I work with one of the international bank (B.O.A) here in REPUBLIC OF
BENIN. Although the world is very small place and hard place to meet
people because you don't know who to trust or believe, but as I have
developed the trust in you after my fasting and praying, I made up my
mind to confide this confidential business suggestion to you.

Be rest assure that everything will be handled confidentially.

It has been 7 years ago, that most of the greedy African Politicians
used our bank to Launder money overseas through the help of their
Political advisers.

Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa
was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop
the continent.

The Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to
foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the
funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was
transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being
closed after transfer.

I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when i
discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I
also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no
body cares to ask me because the money was too much for them to control.

As am sending this message to you, I was able to divert Seventy Seven
Million United State Dollars ($77 MILLION) to an escrow account
belonging to no one in the bank.

Now the bank is very anxious to know who is the real beneficiary of
the funds because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It
has been more than five years now and most of the politicians are no
longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas, majority of them
don't have the power again, because their tenure has expired. The $77
Million Dollars has been lying in the bank as unclaimed fund.

I will soon retire from the bank and without wasting time I will like
the fund to be release into your account, so that I will come to your
country for investment and sharing of the fund.

There's no one that is going to ask you any question about the funds
because everything is well secured by me.

I shall give you more details in regard as soon as I receive your
reply and confirmation of readiness to work with me in this deal.

Thanks,

Willem Jacobus

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