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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!

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Fraud email example:

From: "James Omehia" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.jamesomehia111@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:05:18 -0400
Subject: HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU

>From the Desk of Mr. James Omehia
Investment & Administrative Manager
Banque Atlantique Benin
Cotonou – Republic Du Benin

Hello Dear,

My name is Mr. James Omehia, I am the Credit Accounts Officer of
Atlantique Investment Bank. Plc. I have an obscured business
Transaction I wish
to discuss and handle with you, based on trust and sincerity as a God
fearing human. This discussion will be of great benefit to you and me
and our families.

BRIEF HISTORY OF TRANSACTION: It involves moving an Excess Maximum
Returned Capital Profit (EMRCP) of 1.2% to any overseas offshore
account, and commence a standard Investment.

However, in my Bank, BANQUE ATHLANTIQUE INVESTMENT PLC (AIBP), we have
well over 158 Corporate Investors who invested their Capital
Investment Funds in our bank, and this Capital Investment Funds are
being managed and administered by my office.

The Capital Investment Funds has a value of over US$22Billion net. This
Value is been used for Trading in Stock Market, Crude Oil and
Lending with Profit Returns. At Every end of year, each
Corporate Investor is expected or entitled to receive an annual
Dividend/Interest benefits from his total Invested Capital Funds.

The Targeted Interest of the bank over those invested funds tuned to
20% maximum profit at every end of year, but my office made an
advanced maximum profit of 21.2% which is above the targeted 20%
profit.

During my proceeding report, I have excluded the 1.2% over profit,
which amounted to USD$9.2Million.

Normally at every end of each year, all invested customers receive
their yearly interest benefits/dividends, which most of them has
received for the year 2014.

With all due respect, I wish to seek your concept and permission to
present you to our bank as one of our bank official invested customers
who has not yet received his/ her 2014 yearly benefit, so that our
bank will transfer this over maximum interest of 1.2% (US$9.2Million)
to your nominated bank account, for both of us to share among
ourselves.

Please if you are willing and interested in this proposition, and we
handle the project successfully, you will get 40% of this US$9.2M, as
your own share, while the other 60% will be for me.

If you read through this letter, and you find interest to handle
this big project with me, kindly send me the below listed information
to enable me start to process all the official papers in your name, to
identify you as one of the bank corporate investors, yet to received
his 2015 annual dividend .

1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS:
3. YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
4. YOUR CONTACT / DIRECT TELEPHONE/ MOBILE NOS:
5. CLASSIFICATION OF YOUR OCCUPATION
6. YOUR SEX AND AGE
7. PASSPORT PHOTOGRAPH OR NATIONAL ID CARD:

However, I do not have any intention to contact any further person (s)
unless I receive your response today without any interest.


Your earliest response to this proposition will be highly appreciated.

Kind Regards,


Mr. James Omehia


Re: An Opportunity for us to claim Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP)

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