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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: Pascal Bendugu <pascalbendugu19@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:25:20 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From Mr.Pascal Edu Bendugu.( Please Top Secret )


 Good Day,

Compliments of the day with your entire family, It’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction for assistance.My name is Mr. Pascal Edu Bendugu . from Burkina Faso. I am the telex manager of African Development Bank Group (ADB) Burkina Faso,

I have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds ($22.3 Million Dollars) of one of my bank clients Engineer Christian Eich from Germany. Who died in crash and none of his family member or relation has come for the claim, and now the bank is planning how to confiscate the fund since no one has come for the claim. Please I need an honest and humanity foreign partner that we can both do this transaction together to achieve this success.

I decided to investigate further and discovered that Engineer Christian Eich lost his life including his wife and two children; they are among the victims of (Flight AF4590) which crashed on July 25th 2000 killing all 109 people on board.

Hence, I am inviting you for the deal I will offer you 40% of the amount mentioned above and 60% for me if you are sure you can handle the transaction and you are ready to assist me and execute this business, I want you to see this as a confidential matter to enable you and me to achieve this business. Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail.

For more clarification reply me back and please note that the claim is 100% risk free. Please reply me through this my private E-mail Address for security purpose (pascalbendugu19@gmail.com).

Please make sure that you keep this transaction as your top secrect.

I am waiting for your reply.

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr Pascal Edu Bendugu.

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