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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: Delanna Washington <shields658@gmail.com>
Reply-To: king.douglas15@foxmail.com
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:47:39 +0100
Subject: Hello; Beneficiary: the owner of this email address; very urgent notification:


*FROM PRESIDENT OFFICEHIS EXCELLENCY DR. YAYI BONISIGNED/ NO4 YAYI BONI
STREETDATE/ 11 / 3 / 2015*



*Hello; Beneficiary: the owner of this email address; very urgent
notification:*

*Reply for this final notice, reply if you still alive I sent you an email
about the scammer who took your fund for the past according to the file
here, but I did not hear from you, and today now I receive mail from Mrs.
Rose Morgan, and she said that you as the real owner of the money is dead,
please are you dead or alive, then you are to reply soon before any legal
action will take place by releasing your fund to Mrs. Rose Morgan, as she
started that you signed an agreement latter with her, is this true?*

*Well if this not true that you sign an agreement latter with her, then I
want you to try your best to send fee required to me or my secretary Mrs.
Shallot Martin; as soon as you can to avoid this woman claiming your fund
OK, because the federal cancel department is about to cancel this payment
in your name, as the result of your delay and abandoning your funds and it
is unclaimed.*

*And after I received the email from (Mrs. Rose Morgan) then I now pas
instruction to my Secretary (Mrs. Shallot Martin) not to release your fund
to any Mrs. Rose Morgan or anybody else accept you, she said okay that she
will do as I have said, but she told me that she received the same mail
from (Mrs. Rose Morgan) and I told her and Attorney not to release the fund
to anybody if not you, so I want you to do your best and send the fee
soonest thank you and hope to hear from you soon, but if you did not trust
my secretary then send the fee to me direct with bellow information so that
I will help them take care of your fund.*

*So my dear as for those crook and criminals scammers that was got arrest
for fraud and they will be jail if they have no legal prove about your past
lost fund, because I have asked them about you and your money, but they
said that they did not know you and they did not collect any money from
you, and I and Police told them that they will be jail if they refuse to
say the truth, and bellow is their picture in the police custody.*

*I will be waiting to hear from you with the required Western Union payment
information to enable you receive your Contract Scam Victim Payment the sum
of FOUR MILLION *
*$4.8MILLION DOLLARS U.S.D United State dollars, which we the Federal
government of Benin have agreed to remit in your name immediately, I want
you to follow the instruction on this mail to receive your Contract Scam
Victim Payment of FOUR MILLION $4.8MILLION DOLLARS*

*Finally you are to send the fee with this bellow information as listed:*


*RECEIVER'S NAME:........ JOSEPH CHUKWUEMEKA*
*COUNTRY:..................... BENIN REPUBLIC*
*CITY:......................... .... COTONOU*
*TEST QUESTION:............IN GOD? *
*TEST ANSWER:............... WE TRUST*
*AMOUNT:...............U.S.D $175 DOLLARS*

*
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SIGNED HIS EXCELLENCY
DR. YAYI BONI, THE PRESIDENT
OF COTONOU BENIN REPUBLI

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