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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: "Mr. SLIF HIMMA" <fabiosecci@domusimmobiliare.com>
Reply-To: mrsaifhima@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:39:03 -0700
Subject: PLEASE FILL THIS FORM BELLOW AND RESEND IT TO ME



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Dear Friend,

With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose I make
this contact mail with you as I believe that you can be of great
assistance to me, my name is Mr. SLIF HIMMA from Benin Republic
Cotonou, I am about to retire from active Bank service but I am
skeptical to reveal this particular secret transaction business to a
stranger but i have decide and You must assure me that everything will
be handled confidentially, I am Mr SLIF HIMMA Auditing And Accounting
Section,I got your mail address through the international network
business media directorates when I was looking for a sure contact of
someone who can assist me as foreign partner I assured of your
capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity when I
prayed to the most high about you. I want to transfer an abandoned
$10.35 million to your account,40% for you while 60% for me, please if
you are interest send your information to me for more details.

I do not know whether this is your correct email or not because I only
used your name initials to search for your contact and In case you are
not the person I am supposed to contact, PLEASE see this transaction
business as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another
person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether
you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top
secret,

It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians
used our bank to Launder money overseas through the help of their
Political advisers, Most of the funds which they transferred out of the
shores of Africa republic of Benin Cotonou was gold and oil money that
was supposed to have been used to develop the continent, But the
Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to
foreign accounts in abroad accounts, so I also used the opportunity to
divert part of the funds $10.3500.000.00 million dollars hence I am
aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred out as
all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer,

For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other people
that took the whole money did not face any problems, This is my
chance/opportunity also to grab my own good but you must keep the
details of the funds secret to avoid leakages as no one in the bank
knows about the rightful beneficiary,

I worked as a personal Bank Officer to most of the politicians here in
my country republic of Benin and when I discovered that they were using
me to succeed in their greedy act i also cleaned some of their banking
records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money
was too much for them to control,

The money has been here in our Bank lying dormant for years now without
anybody coming for the claim of it. I want to release the money to you
as the relative to our deceased customer (the account owner) who died a
long with her supposed NEXT OF KIN since 21 APRIL 2006. The Banking laws
here does not allow such money to stay more than 10 years,because the
money will be recalled to the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund.
By indicating your interest

(PLEASE FILL THIS FORM BELLOW AND RESEND IT TO ME).
1) Your Full Name
2) Your Age
3) Marital Status
4) Your Cell Phone Number
5) Your Fax Number
6) Your Country
7) Your Occupation
8) Sex
9) Your Religion
10) Copy of your passport or id card.

NOTE you have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to
move very smoothly into the account you will provide to the bank. As you
finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we will discuss
very well over this business or send mail to me immediately.
Please respond urgently

TELEPHONE NUMBER +22966557483
Regards,
MR SLIF HIMMA

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