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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: "john bruma," <first-yao@aioros.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "johnbruma445@gmail.com" <johnbruma445@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:54:32 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Good day to you,


Good day to you,

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose I make this contact mail with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me, my name is Mr John Bruma from Benin Republic Cotonou, I am about to retire from active Bank service but I am skeptical to reveal this particular secret transaction business to a stranger but i have decide and You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially,

I do not know whether this is your correct email or not because I only used your name initials t search for your contact and In case you are not the person I am supposed to contact, PLEASE see this transaction business as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top secret,

It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to Launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers, Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa republic of Benin Cotonou was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent, But the Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts in abroad accounts, so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds 28 million dollars hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred out as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer,

For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face any problems, This is my chance/opportunity also to grab my own good but you must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one in the bank knows about the rightful beneficiary,

I worked as a personal Bank Officer to most of the politicians here in my country republic of Benin and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act i also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control, They laundered/transferred out over $700,000,000,00 (seven hundred million) united states Dollars oil and Gold money during the process and i was able to divert TWENTY EIGHT MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ($28m) to an escrow account here in the UBA BANK and the escrow account belong to no one in the bank and now the UBA BANK AUTHORITIES HEADQUATER UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA is anxious now to know who is the beneficiary to the funds because they have made a lot of profits with the funds,

It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas, The 28 MILLION DOLLARS has been lying waste but I don''t want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreigner who has account to enable me share the percentage with the receiver and that is the reason why i contacted you for your assistance and for you to help me to finalize this transaction, The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you,

I expect your urgent communication and Upon your response and strong assurance that you will not let me down or betray me when this fund 28 million dollars gets into your account in your country, As soon as you declare your interest I will sent to you the transfer procedures details,

(FILL THE FORM BELLOW AND SEND IT BACK TO ME).

1) Your Full Name:-...............
2) Your Age:-.....................
3) Marital Status:-...............
4) Your private Cell Phone Number:..........
5) Your Country:-.................
6) Your Occupation:-..............
7) Sex:-.......................
8) Your Religion:-....................
9) Your Private E-mail Address:.............
10, A copy of your passport or driving license.............

Thanks for your maximum co-operation,

Yours Sincerely,

john bruma,
johnbruma445@gmail.com

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