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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: "SUPREME COURT OF BENIN." <officefile8488@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "SUPREME COURT OF BENIN." <chief.j-petergodwin@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:05:36 +0900 (JST)
Subject: SUPREME COURT OF BENIN.


SUPREME COURT OF BENIN.
From:Peter Godwin 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Benin.

Attention Please,

          Provision of Affidavit of Claim Certificate for Legal Cover/
Protection of US$3.5Million Dollars.

Please let us start by apologizing to your humble and noble person, this
is because your payment file worth the total sum of us$3.5Million us
dollars has just been brought to my desk for cancellation which i have to
taken my time to look into your payment file to know why your over due
payment should be cancel and i found out that it was because of your
inability to secure your Release Approval Order Certificate (RAOC) that is
why they have resolved to have your payment of us$3.5Million us dollars
cancel.

However, due to humanitarian ground and sympathy and because i do not want
your payment cancel so i immediately called up the president to explain
your matter to him as regards your payment and he personally called up a
meeting which was resolved that all payment charges and any payment fee be
reduced to it's barest menial in order to enable you afford to pay the fee
so that your payment will release to you today.

To this end it will interest you to know that every and any fee/charges
required of you have been reduced to only the sum of $235.00 us dollars
this step is in order to enable you have this only fee paid so that your
release approval order certificate (RAOC) is procured and acquired in
other to enable the speedy accelerated transfer of your $3.5 Million us
dollars into any bank account of your choice.

Please we want you to know that you have till the end of today to effect
the required payment so we can clear, release and effect the transfer of
your fund worth us$3.5 Million us dollars in our care to any bank account
of your choice, so we advice you to pay the $235.00 us dollars through the
western union money transfer or money gram below information and send back
the payment details to this office immediately the payment is effected by
you now.

kindly send your banking details and mobile number.


Looking forward for your immediate response today.

Yours Faithfully,
Peter Godwin 
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME
COURT OF BENIN.

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