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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: " Romuald WADAGNI" <"filexsum1."@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: "ministerromauld.wadagni00@gmail.com" <filexsum@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:07:32 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficairy,

I am Minister Romuald WADAGNI, I am the Minister of Finance and Economy Benin Republic, I contacted you directly because some files were forward to my office from the Treasury Department few days ago on the long approved compensation payment which I happen to find your name on the list as one of the beneficiaries, after going through your file it came to my understanding that you have not yet receive outstanding payment which has been long approved, and I have also checked on our record and discovered that your payment has been long approved to be release and transfer to you in your name, but due to the nature of corruption and the people, agent and offices that you have been working with here in Africa is why you have not yet been able to receive and access your funds till date.

The reason why I contacted you directly is because report came to my office that some beneficiaries have not yet been able to received their funds including you on the list, on that regard I have put together fillies and personally gone through your file and I discovered that there is an outstanding payment of US$4 Million that has been approve in your name here in Benin Republic to be release and transferred to you.

Now I want you to know that as the Minister of Finance Benin Republic, I have decided to help you and make sure that you receive this complete amount of US$4 Million that has been approved for release in your name with 3 working days, without any breach of law and delay. But before I proceed on any further detail, I want us to have a trust bond okay, because I am a man of integrity and I'm also very honest and straight forward, therefore if you want to receive your payment as approved you will have to listen to me and follow my instructions, and you will have to trust me to enable me trust you as well and I promise to give the best of my services to you.

Due to the law of transferring such huge amount of money out of an Ecowas country such as Benin, I have arranged for an easier and better way for you to receive your funds at no cost. I have contacted the management of a Bank here in Benin on your transfer and they informed me that they can have your total amount of US$4 Million transferred to you via an ATM MASTER CARD payment procedure which will not attract the government and any attention.

This way, they will open an account for you here and have your total amount deposited in the account and this account will have an ATM Master Card which you can use to access your funds from any part of the world and the ATM Card will be sent to you via the DHL delivery Company, once your funds is deposited in the account they will send the ATM CARD to you in your country via the DHL delivery company and you will use the ATM Master Card to access, withdraw and transfer your funds using any ATM machine in the world.

To enable us proceed, I want you to stop communicating with anybody or office until you receive you ATM CARD and gain access to your funds, you are not to tell anybody about this development until you receive your funds. You have to trust me for the safety of your funds and for security reasons.

I will wait for your immediate response to this mail in other for us to process and also I want you to send your direct phone number to me for easy and fast communication.

Send your response to my private and direct email ID: ( ministerromauld.wadagni00@gmail.com ).
You can also text or call me on my direct phone number below.

Romuald WADAGNI
Minister Of Finance and Economy
Benin Republic Cotonou
Tel: +22961082930

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