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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: "Hon. Mr Kelvin Anthony" <ribrahimlamorde@gmail.com>
Reply-To: hon.mrkelvin_anthony@yahoo.fr
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:52:35 +0100
Subject: Attention

UBA BANK HEAD OFFICE
NO 47 UBA BANK MONEY-GRAM HEAD
OFFICE SEME BORDER BENIN REPUBLIC.
Nigeria P.O Box 6699.

Attention

Greetings, am very sorry for taken too much of your time at this moment
but please try to understand and bear with me as you go through this
urgent message, anyway my name is Hon. Mr Kelvin Anthony, i have tried to
reach you on e-mail all this while, but you failed to respond back to me,
please be aware that your matter came to my desk which were dated since on
the 15-01-2015, (7) months ago, with the total fund of $250,000 United
State Dollars, frankly speaking you are very lucky because you are going
to receive your first (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD after
responding to our e-mail, all this while your transfer was stopped because
it has been under investigation of money laundry by the Ministry of Information
and National Orientation and that was the reason your name were among
those who were blacklisted, but now we have settled your problem and
removed your name from the blacklist, so your funds has been transfered
over to you now safely.

This is your (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD:

(1)
5645-3?63 - $1,500USD

(2)
6426-475? - $1,500USD

(3)
9635-?438 - $1,500USD

(4)
3466-49?5 - $1,500USD

(5)
7416-37?5 - $1,500USD

(6)
6406-24?5 - $1,500USD

(7)
6004-14?5 - $1,500USD

(8)
8426-94?5 - $1,500USD

Please do forgive me for taking much of your time in going through this
e-mail which you may conclude by saying that it is just a common thing to
you every-day if am not mistaken, we knew that at least you have
encountered numbers of similar e-mails like this before, but please do not
mistake that everybody who reach you are all scams or either fraudsters as well.

Yes, I agree with you that you have every right to decide not to make any
up-front payment if even we do ask for any fees/charges from you because of
the past scam experiences you had in the past,
but I want to assure you that we are doing our very best to make sure that we
get those people arrested that are spoiling the image of our company or
who claims to be our staffs by using different name's to scam foreigners,
we assure you that they will surely be arrested as soon as we
have full information's of their were-about.

But the only thing you have to do now to receive your funds is very
simple if only you can adhere to my advise, as a respectable and honest
man, we normally gives 100% risk-free to all our customers with a
limited payment, but I have the right to penetrate any office whenever
our customers face difficulties.

Please take note of this and see the differences because you will surely
testify to your friends, families, partners who had been mocking you all
these past years, the only thing we need from you is to obtain the (A.R.O)
Authorization Release Order Certificate which will reflect in any
Money-Gram Office in your country, stating that you are not a victim or
a party of money laundry, the (A.R.O) Authorization Release
Order Certificate will only cost you the sum of $79 USD (only) remember
that this is the only fee involve which must be pay before your (8) Ref-control
numbers of $12,000 USD will be release to you today. i assure you with
my life that after this there
won't be any more fee, trust me and i will never disappoint you.

You are to send the requested fee through MONEY GRAM TRANSFER OFFICE
with the receiver's information's
below:

Receiver's Name: Anthony Ofor.
Country: Benin Republic.
Question: How Long?
Answer: Today.
Amount: $79 Usd Only
Ref# Number: ........
Sender's name: .........

Please try and make the $79 transfer as soon as possible today and send the
complete payment details across to me, I hope to hear from you soonest so
that we can proceed with your transfer immediately.

You can call my number (+229 66586498) in case you are confuse in any
way for more details.

Your's Sincerely,
Hon. Mr Kelvin Anthony
Managing Director Of (Foreign Department)
UBA Bank Money-Gram Head Office Seme border Benin

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