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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Romuald Segbe" <segbe_mr.romuald@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: mrromualds@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:06:37 -0900 (AKST)
Subject: Dear Friend




From Mr. Romuald Segbe
Ecobank Cotonou
Benin Republic
E-MAIL: mrromualds@yahoo.com


Dear Friend,

Please this is important and very urgent i have an urgent transaction of
$20.5 million usd to transfer to your nominated account, I am Mr. Romuald
Segbe, i am an Auditor, with Accounting Department, Ecobank here in
Cotonu, Benin Republic.

Aftergoing through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I
do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The
owner of this account died on Thursday 25th December 2003 along with
families and Business Partners as victims of UTA Flight 141 Boeing 727
bound for Beirut which crashed shortly after take-off in Benin Republic
from Country's main city, Cotonou.
Please visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3348109.stm
Most occupants of the plan unfortunately lost their lives.

No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it,the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that his company does not know anything about this account and the amount
involved is (USD 20.5 MILLION) Twenty million Five Hunderd Thousend
UnitedStates Dollars.

I want to transfer the USD 20.5 MILLION) Twenty million Five Hunderd
Thousend United States Dollars into a safe foreigners account abroad , but
I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner
because this money can not be approved to a local bank here, but can only
be approved to any foreign account because the money is in US dollars and
the former owner of the account is a foreigner too.

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise as we don't know
our selves before,but be rest assure that this is life time business for
both of us even for our generation to come.

With believe in God that you will never let me down in this business. You
are the only person that I have contacted in this business, so please
reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently,
Send also your private telephone and fax number.

I want us to meet face to face or sign a binding agreement to bind us
together so that you can receive this money into a foreign account or any
account of your choice where the fund will be safe. I will fly to your
country for withdrawal and sharing and other investments.

I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with
foreign account and foreign beneficiary.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the
management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information about this account, which I will feed you with, if you
are able and with capability to handle such amount in strict confidence
and trust according to my instructions and advice for our mutual benefit
because this opportunity w ill never come again in my life.

I need truthful person in this business because I don't want to make
mistake I need your strong assurance and trust. With my position now in
the office I can transfer this money to any foreign reliable account,
which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending my physical arrival in your country for sharing.

And i want to remind you that your share has been carculated at 40% of the
total sum. I'am waiting for your urgent reply so that i will give you more
information about this deal.

Please reply back to my private email address(mrromualds@yahoo.com )

With regards,
Mr. Romuald Segbe.

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