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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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Fraud email example:

From: Edward Cooper <remote@paziapm.co.id>
Reply-To: "Mr. Edward Cooper" <edward.cooper2004@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 20:57:56 +0700 (WIB)
Subject: Re: Hello Dear Read and Get Back to me today




Proposition from Mr. Edward Cooper

Good day !!


My name is Mr. Edward Cooper, I am the Administrative/Investment Manager of Banque Atlantique Benin here in Cotonou Benin Republic of West Africa.

I have a transaction which I believed will be of mutual benefit to both of us if successfully and intelligently handled. The project involved an Excess Profit Return (EPR) from an investment portfolio administered by my office in our firm. I am sending this proposition to sort your consent, permission and assistance to handle the transaction.

BREIF DETAIL: In every Banking year, our bank has a Target of 20% Profit Returns from all the Bank external Investments, But in 2014 my department which administers all the bank investment projects made an Excess profit returns of 21.2%, which has an Excess of 1.2% above official 20% target.

The Excess Profit Return of 1.2% has been calculated to the tune of $1.3Million.(One Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only).

Be informed our Bank has well over 158 corporate investors locally and internationally, who invested their resources/funds to our bank ,entitled to receive Dividend payment at every end of each year.

My objective to contact you through this medium is to seek your consent and permission to stand as one of our bank foreign corporate investor, to put claim of your 2014 annual dividend payment from the bank as has not been remitted. If agreement and understanding is settled between us, THEN i will present your information to the bank as one of the foreign investors who has not received payment of $1.3Million dividend payment from the bank.

Sequel to this, I will stand as a middle person to co-ordinate you and the bank, to maintain official protocols of dividend payments.

Be informed as a serving staff of this bank, i can not execute this operation without the participation of a foreign partner, as it will definitely raise an eyebrow on my official during transfer processing, thus i contact to involve you as a foreign partner.


Be rest assured and guaranteed that this operation/ Transaction will be executed under a legitimate and official arrangement that will protect you and I from any breach of law. I will also make sure all legal and official documents to back you up as one of the bank foreign investors are processed / put in place on your name to make the claim.

You will be compensated adequately with 50% of this total sum of US$1.3Million,for your participation . All I require from you is your trust and honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. Also You will have to show commitments to the operation/transaction as time will be of great importance in what we have to do.

If you are interested and prepared to work with me according to these dictates, please reply this message immediately with the below listed information, which i will use to process all the documents/papers in your name.

1. Your Full Name

2. Your Current Address

3. Country of Origin

4. Contact Mobile Phone No.

5. Present Occupation

6. Sex (male or female)

Upon receipt of your reply message ,i will send you full details of this transaction to make assessments before we will proceed officially.

I wish you a pleasant day as I hope to read from you today

Kind Regards


Mr. Edward Cooper

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