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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: "Lliodio Boya" <lliodio@outlook.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 23:48:36 -0000
Subject: [09-06-14]

FROM THE DESK OF
MR LLIODIO BOYA
BRANCH MANAGER
BGFIBANK EQUATORIAL GUINEA


Hello Dear,

My name is Mr.Lliodio Boya , I am the branch manager of the BGFIBank
Equatorial Guinea. I got your information during my search through the
Internet. I am 40 years of age and married with 3 lovely kids. It may
interest you to hear that I am a Man of peace and I don't want problem,
but I do not know how you will feel about this because you may have
double mind. But I am telling you that this is real and you are not
going to regret after doing this transaction with me. I only hope that
we can assist each other. But if you don't want this business offer
kindly forget it and I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us,
as the regional manager of the BGFIBank Equatorial Guinea; it is my
duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital
city (MALABO) at the end of each year. On the course of the last year
2012 report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made
five million five hundred thousand dollar [5, 500000.00] which my head
office is not aware of it and will never be aware of. I have since
place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any
beneficiary.

As an official of the bank I can not be directly connected to this
fund, so this informed me of contacting you for us to work, so that you
can assist and receive this fund into your bank account for us to
SHARE. Mean While you will have 35% of the total fund, Note there are
practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I
need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund
who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order
the transfer to your designated bank account.

If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very
much as soon as I receive your response I will give you details on how
we can achieve it successfully.

Best Regards
Mr.Lliodio Boya



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