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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: "FROM SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE: BENIN REPUBLIC" <office.alart1759@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "FROM SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE: BENIN REPUBLIC" <george.moore43@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:20:08 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE: BENIN REPUBLIC


Foreign policy: Benin is a State member of 
ACP, AU, CD, FAO, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, ILO,
IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO 
(Correspondent), OAS (observer), OIC, OIF, UN,
UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Economic data:
GDP: 7.565 billion USD (IMF 2012 EST.)

Official name: Republic of Benin

Government: Republic  
Area: 112,622 sq. km
Capital: Porto-Novo

Official languages: French etc (most common vernaculars in south)

Population: 9, 877,292 (est. July 2013)
Religions: Catholic 27.1%, Muslim 24.4%, Voodoo 17.3%, Protestant 10.4% (Celestial 5%, Methodist 3.2%, other Protestant 2.2%), other Christian 5.3%, other 15.5%

Political data:
Independence Day: 1 August 1960 (from France)

Judicial: Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and the High Court of Justice are the highest courts. The Supreme Court consists of the court president and 3 chamber presidents organized into an administrative division, judicial chamber, and chamber of accounts. The Constitutional Court consists of 7 members including the court president. The High Court of Justice consists of the Constitutional Court members, 6 members appointed by the National Assembly and the Supreme Court president.

The Supreme Court shall have power to award costs in all civil proceedings in the Court, and to any other enactment or to rules of Court, it shall be in the discretion of the Court to determine by whom and to what extent the same shall be paid, Supreme Court is the highest court in Benin with appellate jurisdiction in administrative, civil and criminal matters, as well as litigation concerning local elections


This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.

We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal with Cote d’Ivoire) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice, during the course of investigation, we were able to recovered some funds from these scam artists but (IMF) organization have ordered the funds recovered from those scammers to be shared among the 10 lucky people listed in our compensation file.

This notice directed to you because your email address was found in one of the scam artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation still on process, maybe you have been scammed. And therefore you are compensated with sum of $3 million eight hundred thousand US Dollars valid into an (ATM Card Number)

Now as your email address is among of the lucky beneficiaries who will receive their compensation funds, we promise to arrange your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD and it will deliver to your postal address with the Pin Numbers as to enable you withdraw maximum amount of $5,000 per day on each withdrawal, until all the funds are exhausted, and be aware that your atm card with security Pin Numbers will deliver to your home address via DHL delivery company, depending your choice.

So in order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to pay for settlement and clearance fee which will cost you $750 USD, and try to send it today via western union, ria office or money-gram transfer office.

Receiver Name: Stanley Oko
Country: Benin Republic
City: Cotonou
Text Quest: When
Test Awns: Soon
Zip Code: +229

FILL THIS FORM LISTED BELOW TO ENABLE DHL AGENT LOCATE YOUR ADDRESS

Full name
Country
City
Home address
Cell No
Zip code

Please we advice you once again to stop all the communications you have with everyone regarding your payment as we have shortly agreed to deliver your package

Yours in Services
Mr. George Moore
Cell +229 99750543

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