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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: MR JOHN CARTER <"wwww."@heart.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: MR JOHN CARTER <johncater040@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:01:11 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention: i am your agent MR JOHN CATER

I am the diplomat agent responsible for the delivery of your
consignment box worth the sum of $12.8 Million United States Dollars.
I received your mail while I have been in this airport for couple of
hrs. Now. It’s mandatory that the delivery of your package will take
place today because it has given me a lot of stress while I was told
that it will take me only 2days.The way HOME LAND PORT SECURITIES
inspects consignment shipped out of French Country is not well
pleased. I am having a little problem here with HOMELAND SECURITY,
intercepting the consignment with regards to the ownership certificate
which is delaying my coming to the above address you supplied to make
the delivery to you. They persisted I must obtain the ownership
certificate before I will be allow to connect my flight to Your City.

the Airport authority demanded for all the legal back up to prove to
them that the fund is no way related with drug nor fraud money I
presented the Clearance certificate, Yellow Tag and they are very much
pleased with the papers I presented, they scanned the boxes and found
out that the fund is 100 % spend able and accepted by any bank in the
whole world. I have I more vital paper with me but I can only present
you the hard copy when I reach your house as that it is the diplomatic
rules, such as authorization to deliver, but they refused to past me
out, asking for the ownership certificate after finding out the
content of your consignment box.

I asked the man in charge Mr. Anderson Dave the reason of all this
delay because the entire necessary documents is complete and this
package has been on transits from PARIS FRANCE and the authority over
there did not demand for such certificate and he did not detailed the
reasonable answer of the
stopped, but keep on telling me that it's illegal to enter the country
with the UN open Package without the American AWARD ownership
certificate otherwise they will inspect the consignment since is
sending from individual to individual. I don't have any means to
contact you when I arrived this airport and my only means to
communicate with you orally, is phone and email.

At the moment I have negotiated with the Customs Authority to allow me
in with the consignment but they refused. They now directed me to
contact the origin of the consignment to get the clearance and I have
also contacted THE BENIN REPUBLIC EMBASSY and through the help of a
customs officer Mr. Robert Daniels, they said that it will cost sum of
$300.00 and you must understand that time do not wait for anybody and
I’m still trying to meet up with the FLIGHT SCHEDULE today.
And provide with the following information:
Your full Name. . . . . . . .
Your Address:. . . . . . . .
Occupation:. . . . . . . .
Home/Cell Phone:. . . . . . . . .
Age. . . . . . . . . . . .

Kindly send $300.00 To BENIN REPUBLIC Immediately through Money Gram
with the name below so that they can obtain the required CLEAN BILL OF
RECORD to enable me board my flight to come over to your based, send
the fee to our office in Benin Republic with the information’s below:

SEND WITH THE NAME OF COMPANY'S CASHIER:
Receiver's Name Emmanuel Onyibor
Country= Benin Republic
City= Cotonou
Question= In God
Answer. . . . We Trust.
Amount. . . . $300

Thank You,
DIPLOMAT MR JOHN CARTER

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