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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: "Barrister Williams ,C, Morgan" <egrdvrgvfr@mail.ru>
Reply-To: "Barrister Williams ,C, Morgan" <postofficebeninrepublic1@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:30:34 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear good Friend


Dear good Friend, 

I thank you very much for your past effort trying to help me to complete the transfer process, my dear, Its my pleasure to inform you that through the help of a new partner from GERMANY i  have successfully transfer the total sum of 37Million, thirty seven million united states dollar into my new partner foreign account, right now i am in GERMANY for the project that brought me here, however i will not left you behind because i know you work very hard in the past trying to complete the transfer with me, because of that reasons i have left the sum of ($800,000,00) which i kept for you as a compensation for your past effort, the $800,000,00 U.S Dollar is in Certified Bank Draft which will be post to your home address pls go ahead and contact the post office in BENIN REPUBLIC, you should provide your post office address for them to send the the BANK DRAFT of ($800,000,00) the only money that you will send to them is ($65) which will be use for the stamp
fee service charges of the package once you have send them the ($65) they will proceed to post the BANK DRAFT to your address which you will provide to them, pls go ahead and send to them your post office address,  the e-mail address and who to contact is listed bellow,

Email-

Contact Person Aminu Lawali

Head of service post office Benin Republic,

Right now i am very busy here in GERMANY but i will be very glad for you to write me back and let me know that you have receive the package within couple of days time, thanks and may God Continue to bless you and your family,

Yours Sincerely
Barrister Williams ,C, Morgan
Senior Advocate of Benin (SAB)

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