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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: "DR MARK FAVOUR" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drmarkfavour@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 02:37:56 +0100
Subject: 5 BILLION USD JOINT VENTURE

 
Dear Friend
 
Thanks for your mail.
 
My politician client from Ghana who made his ways and move 5 billion USD into a security company here in republic of Benin, he need whom can take the fund and put into investments projects and manage the fund investments project, then every profit from the fund investments shall be 50/50%, here in this mail I have attached the SKR, contract, client passport and the needed documents invoice to you, you have to study the contract if good for you, you're expected to visit our country here in republic of Benin for more verifications and confirmations of the fund transaction and you shall sign the contract face to face with the fund owner, then after the contract is signed you shall pay 79,050 USD for the needed fund transfer legal documents charges to the lawyer as it is in the invoice.
 
Then the lawyer shall obtain all the listed fund transfer legal documents in the invoice to your names as the real owner and beneficiary of the fund, then with the documents you shall open an escrow bank account with the bank and the fund shall be deposited into the new escrow account which you shall open, then the bank shall make the fund transfer to any account which you will provide.
 
The bank shall attach all the fund transfer legal documents on your names and make it transfer to you bank account by swift MT 103 which shall carry attachments of all the fund transfer legal documents on your names which shall proof that the fund is legal, clean and clear, and its a confirmation that your the real owner and beneficiary of the fund from here in our country to your country or anywhere in the world.
 
But if you cannot come to our country you shall sign the contract and send back to me with your copy passport, then Abraham can sign and send back to you, then you can send the money to lawyer to help you do all that things.
 
If you want you can just only fly down to our country without any money yet, then after your verifications and all is good for you, then you can call your bankers to send money to you to clear the bills and get all the fund transfer legal documents to your names to enable the bank make the fund transfer legally bank to bank.
 
Or if you can give bank guarantee 10% of the 5 billion to our financia, he can make all expenses.
 
SKYPE: gold.dust.bar.seller
drmarkfavour@gmail.com
+229-9854-9968
DR MARK FAVOUR
 

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