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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: "Ste.JamesDou Company Benin" <info.ste.jamesdou@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:16:21 +0200
Subject: Check message

From: Barrister James Dou JP
14 Bp 78, Ccp No: 007/862 Cotonou,
Republque du Benin

Greetings Dearest,

Subject: For Urgent and Personal Attention

I am Barrister James Dou JP, principal attorney of MMacfoy Prye Law
Associate (Cabinet D’avocat) Benin, I am the personal / family lawyer
to late Gen. Matthew Kerekou the former president of Republique du
Benin on financial matters. During his regime as a military and
civilian president, he acquired a lot of funds which he kept in fix
deposit Accounts with banks here and in some other countries as unpaid
contract fund to foreign contractors during his tenure. And he (Late
Gen. Matthew Kerekou) has been using a foreigner to carryout the
transfer of these deposited fund as the bona fide / owners of the
deposited fund on his behalf.

Note, I am contacting you in the same regards so as to present you /
your company as one of the unpaid Contractors whose payment the (Late
Gen. Matthew Kerekou) did not complete before his death. It may
interest you to know that, the late president has used me to carry out
all these transaction to oversea account with his partner as he
presented to me.

>From my records as his personal attorney I have transferred to oversea
account on behalf of the former president over 50 Biln USD to
foreigners who he presented as the contractors for the payments. As a
respected former Military and civilian President, no one or government
agency questions his claims regarding the funds under an unpaid
contract funds as labeled. The entire amount transferred so far on
his behalf was used for investment purposes in oversea countries.

My main reason of communication with you is that, I want to present
you to the bank here, as the the contractors for one of the account
containing the sum of 7.4 Mil USD which is yet to be paid to you as
the contractors during the regime of Late Gen. Matthew Kerekou. Now
that he is dead I have all legal right as his personal / family lawyer
to carry any transaction on his behalf/ name without any questions
from the government of Benin.

Before the death of Gen. Matthew Kerekou, I have given him an account
of all transaction carried out on his behalf with his foreign
partners; I also gave him the balance amount and remaining account
which has not been transferred out of Benin Six months before his
death. After his death two months ago, his children and wives have met
me for a clear records of their father/ husband properties in my care
and all records are correct with what late Gen. Matthew Kerekou has in
his personal file.

Note, the transaction which I have contacted you about is between you
and me not for the late president family because the late president
and his family are not aware 7.4 Mil USD account details only me his
personal / family lawyer knows about it. If you are interested to work
with me by standing as the legal beneficiary of this fund 7.4 Mil USD,
please get back to me immediately to enable me give you details of the
account for onward transfer to your bank account in your country or
any country of your choice for an investment project between your
family and mine.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us and for the future
of our children/ generation to come. Awaiting your urgent reply for
more details on claim process in your name if you are interested. If
for any reason you would not want to work with me, please destroy this
letter and do not make it known to anyone else for security reason.

Yours Sincerely.
James Dou JP

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