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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. Jonathan" <ste.erukatel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:20:54 +0200
Subject: URGENT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Dear Sir / Madam,

Our Company is a well known registered company here in Benin. You can
read about our company over the web. We have been notified by the
ministry of trade about the recent add concerning our company in your
forum. Your forum has published our company as scam. This is not just
provocative act by your forum but an attempt to damage the image of
our company and we will undertake every possible legal measure against
such behavior against our company.

We have been into business field for so many years with excellent good
reputation, we have been importing for so many years and we have never
and will never ever engaged into any kind of fraudulent activities, we
are honest company seeking for only genuine and fruitful business
partnership. We don’t know how our name could be placed on such fraud
watch in your forum, there are also some confusing names, email and
addresses in similarities in your forum and such date don’t belong to
us.

We understand this is a forum which any one is allowed to participate,
but you may not legally publish such information without independently
verify the truthfulness and or legitimate of such claims before
publishing such information. Whoever did this, may have did it on the
ground to damage the image of our company because we are a legal
registered company and licensed to import into Benin and we will dare
not attempt into any kind of fraudulent activities, we will not fail
to undertake the necessary legal measure in due length.

On behalf of our CEO and our legal department in partnership with our
lawyer, we hereby request that you to:

Kindly provide us the complete name, address and telephone numbers of
the person/ company or organization who claimed that we have
previously engaged into any kind of fraudulent activities with them.

Kindly permanently delete our company name in your forum

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57543

Please understand that this is a provocative act against sovereignty
of our esteem company and we will surely undertake the corresponding
and necessary legal measure as far as it could go.

In addition to the above, please provide us your mailing address,
telephone and fax numbers.

Dr. Wielek Jonathan
Ste Erukatel S.A.

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