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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: LLT Gouv <ronben27@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:18:27 +0000
Subject: CAN YOU MAKE THE CONTACTS?


Dear Sir,

Please I need to talk to you. What can I do so that you can trust me? I am not a scammer. How would you want me to prove to you I am not a scammer so that I can gain your trust and cooperation? I cannot tell you I am not a liar because we live in the world that is full of lies. Everybody who lives in this world tells lies one way or another. We cannot survive in this world without lies. So I cannot tell you I am not a liar. But I tell you I am not a scammer. I am ready to do anything that you wish for me to do in order to prove to you I am not a scammer. I want you to try to put your faith in me regardless of too much scam mails that circulate through internet nowadays.

I want to be connected with a high-quality businessman in your area. I need your cooperation to achieve it. Would you be able to connect me with a high-quality businessman in your area? I have their contacts already. I have Trade-Catalog that contains names and contacts of the businessmen in your area. But I am reluctant and unmotivated to make contact with any of them by myself. Why? Because I feel they will not trust me or rely on my words due to too much of scam mails that circulate nowadays like epidemics.

The recent circulation and spreading of the scam mails has turned into a worldwide signboard. Imagine the situation whereupon you check your e-mail daily and unexpectedly receive different types of scam mails that unknown persons sent to you talking of millions of funds that are deposited in banks that should be claimed as either Lottery or Next-of-Kin of dead persons. Approximately 60% of the scam mails are originating from Africa. And maybe 40% from Europe, Asia and America.

Nobody would believe something good can come out of Africa nowadays apart from scam due to the high level of daily circulation and spreading of the scam mails? This is why I am reluctant and unmotivated to contact any of the businessmen in your area. Because I feel they will never trust my words. Anybody who I may attempt to contact shall think I am one of the scammers who circulate the scam mails. This is why I decided to contact you personally to confide in you. I need your cooperation in order to accomplish my aim.

Though I am an African, I am a truthful and dependable African. I am the type of African who anyone can still trust. I have a transaction to carryout in a hurry which will definitely be successful within a few days. It involves CFA-Franc 13,968,034,124.38 XOF. The “CFA-Franc” and “XOF” are codes of our currency. The CFA-Franc 13,968,034,124.38 XOF is equivalent to US Dollar $ 23,137,509.06 USD. It is equivalent to Euro € 21,294,130.75 EURO. It is equivalent to British Pound £ 16,166,734.95 GBP. I need a trusted businessman within your area who can keep the CFA-Franc 13,968,034,124.38 XOF for me for four years. I will take back the money after four years which is when I will retire.

Would you consider to connect me with a high-quality businessman in your area who can take care of the money for four years? The money is on-hand (readily available). This is not joke. I am not a joker. I am not a scammer. The money is available and the money is close to me. And I want to move the money to foreign bank account in a hurry. I just need a high-quality businessman who will receive the money in his bank account; take care of the money until four years; and return to me the money after four years without quarrel, without argument and without disagreement. Would you connect me with a high-quality businessman in your area?

I want to give you more information about the money; source of the money; and how I have carefully planned to move the money to foreign bank account without attracting Financial-Crimes-Act, such as, money laundering, embezzlement or identity theft. Therefore, I want you to send to me your private e-mail address. And private telephone where you could be reached confidentially. And please I want you to be familiar with these two private e-mail addresses as follows:-

ebeano@naver.com
ebeano83@yahoo.com

Write to me through only these two private e-mail addresses. These two e-mail addresses are not connected to my office. I secretly and privately created these two private e-mail addresses for this communication. Nobody can gain access to these two e-mail addresses except me alone. I repeat; ebeano@naver.com and ebeano83@yahoo.com

Communicate to me by English. Although my language is French, I understand English perfectly. I studied English during period of my education in Primary School, Secondary School and University. I am comfortable with English. I am fluent in simple grammar of English. The use of my simple English grammar is academically marshaled. You will realize this fact when we talk by telephone.

Until your response.

Yours faithfully,

Gustave SONON
Minister of Civil Engineering
Public Works and Transportation
Republic of Benin.

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