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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: "Chief Hon, Djossou Lass" <jeraldclinton@live.com>
Reply-To: interpol07@live.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:19:52 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Attention:Please My Dear,


 

 
 

Chief Hon,Djossou Lass 



The Inspector General 



Interpol - Anti-Fraud International 



Cotonou, Benin Republic


Attention:Please My Dear, 





I
am the Inspector General of International Interpol Police Force Benin
Republic, This is to inform you that after due verifications of your
matter, the United Nation Compensation Commission in affiliation with
Barrack Obama Campaign for Global Economic Crises eradication have
agreed to compensate you with categorical payment sum of $1,500,000.00.
This does not represent your entire payment but a compensation to show
the effort of the United Nations to retreive lost funds. 

Again,
we are happy to announce that we have been able to arrest those
Fruadsters based in Benin Republic whom have been extorting and ripping
off a huge amount of money from you today and that they are still in
our custody to introgation. Their leader whom his name is Mr. Jude Uba
as it appears in his Nigeria Passport said that he has been extorting
money from you using many different names.

Below are the pictures of the arrested Frudsters.     



As
a matter of fact, your fund to tune of $1,500,000.00 USD has been
packaged in a ATM Master Card and deposited to DIAMOND FINANCIAL SERVICS BENIN REPUBLIC for delivery.  We
have made a concrete arrangement with the DIAMOND FINANCIAL SERVICS for a safe delivery
to your door-step once the beneficiary meets up the demand of the
conveyance.
 
Note
that all the delivery fee has been paid on your behalf, but there is
certain Customs Creed which forbid the delivery of your ATM Master Card. In line
with Provisions of Section 2 Sub Section (iia) of CUSTOMS Act of 2001
which state that all Packages/Parcels, and Consignment that contains
Cash/Draft/ATM CARD must carry a valid UN International Delivery Permit before
it can be despatched, while Sub Section (iib) do NOT permit any Courier
Company to open the package
for delivery in
your own case.

This
document is to ensure that your package passes
freely until it arrived to your designated address. It is needed to
clear your ATM from the custorms which the diplomat will go along with
other legal documents to bring your ATM parcel to your door step,  The
UN
International Delivery Permit will be obtained from the African Union
Corperate Office here in Cotonou and the cost is $80 USD.
 
Therefore
reconfirm your current delivery address (i.e 1. Full Names, 2. Delivery
Address and 3. Telephone Number) and send the $80 with the information for the procurement the UN International Delivery Permit

Below is where you can send the $80 for the proceed

Receiver::::::::::: Udezuo Emmanuel
City::::::::::::::Cotonou
Country::::::::::Benin Republic
Questions:::::::In God
Answer:::::::::We belive
Amount::::::::$80.00
Sender's Name:
M.T.C.N::::::

I
wish to inform you that I don’t want to send you the ATM card
information through internet for security reasons, and to avoid
internet hackers hijack the ATM card information and steal your funds.
Secondly your ATM card has been packaged together with the confidential
code and it cannot be open/inspect again till it gets to your
designated address as scheduled

Contact Person: Mr. Paul Agbaka
DIAMOND FINANCIAL SERVICSBENIN
Email: dhl.benin@9.cn
Tel: +229 998 657 215

You should also get back to us with details according to your correspondence with DIAMOND FINANCIAL SERVICSBENIN to my secure email address (interpol07@live.com). Your prompt updates will be highly
appreciated.



God bless.


Chief Hon, Djossou Lass 
The Inspector General
INTERPOL BENIN

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