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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: Benjamin Agyei Ahulu <benjaminaagyei.uba@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:21:29 -0700
Subject: Compliment of the season


Hello,
Compliment of the season

I am contacting you base on trust and confidentiality. I hope my message
meets you in good manner. My name is Mr. Benjamin Agyei Ahulu; I am the
head of financial control in United Bank For Africa Group (UBA). I am 48
years of age and married with 2 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear
that I am a man of PEACE and INTEGRITY; I only hope we can assist each
other, I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I.

As the head of financial control in "United Bank For Africa Group (UBA), It
is my duty to send a financial report to our head office at the end of each
annual general meeting.

During our first annual general meeting for the year 2015 which ended 2
weeks ago, I discovered that my branch in which I am the head of financial
control made an excess profits amount of Eight Million and four Hundred
Thousand united States Dollars [US$8,400,000.00] which my head office are
not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since placed the funds in
what we called "Escrow Suspense Account” without any beneficiary; As the
head of financial control in this bank, I can not be directly connected to
this money, this is why I am contacting you for you to assist me so that
you will receive the money in your bank account as the beneficiary for us
to share, The funds will be shared 50% for you and 50% for me. This excess
profits amount is due to the over contract payments that has been carried
out here in my branch since last year.

All I need from you is to work with me, I will put you as the right
depositor/ beneficiary of the funds, who made the deposit in my branch so
that my bank head office can make the transfer into your designated bank
account. I will furnish you with more detailed steps to proceed on this
mutual transaction.

I assured you 100% that we can get the funds transfer successfully if you
can follow my instruction and direction, hence I am here to make sure that
everything works out successfully. I will act as your account officer here
in the bank to support the claim in every steps.

I am looking forward to hear from you soonest you read this so that I can
send you more details! Please send your reply to my private email
agyeibenjaminahulu.uba@outlook.com


Best Regards,

Mr. Benjamin Agyei
Mobile: +233546904810

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