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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: Ben Smith <"tomato33."@tuba.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Ben Smith <westeern.u212@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:54:21 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attn: Customer


Email: westeern.u212@outlook.com
Phone: +229 99 51 46 35

MOTTO:IN GOD WE DEPENDS

Attn: Customer


We hereby acknowledge receipt of your personal data for the payment of your outstanding credit of $2,500,000.00 USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only).

Be informed that all matters relating to the said transfer has been fully regularized as a final Approval has been issued out in your favor and we have therefore commenced the fund

programming of the payment in your favor which will be effected once all the necessary Formalities has been duly ratified.


It is our pleasure to inform you that the Benin Financial Intelligence Unit, (BFIU) after their careful verification on your payment has this afternoon granted us their approvals and

Clearance in your favor to release your payment of $2,500,000.00 USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) to your designated address and we equally wish

to inform you that we have also finalized our indoor formalities regarding the wire transfer of your outstanding fund to your designated address.

According to our fund release procedures, you are expected to offset the re validation fee of $95 before the transfer of your fund will commence. We deemed it necessary to explain to

you that our government regulation and monetary policy prohibits the transfer of any huge amount outside the country. Because of this reason, any payment ready for transfer, must

obtain an International Remittance File (IRF). These are the basic Legal Transfer Documents that are required to facilitate the transfer of these Funds to you and has to be signed

originally and the cost of this is the primary concern of the beneficiary. We want to make clear to you that our policy does not charge beneficiary for any upfront payment before

releasing your transfer but due to the inactive of your transfer file the system can not keep record of your transfer proceedings for transparency as demanded by the Central Bank to

help checkmate the present economics crisis of world over today, and unless the file is renew the programming cannot be effected, so understand why you are being charged.

You are expected to use the below payment Information's to send the $95:

Name: EZE OSCAR
City/ porto-Novo
Country: Benin
Test Question: In God
Test Answer: We Trust

You are required to email payment details as they appear on the payment slip to us:

1. Name and address of sender
2. Amount sent
3. MTCN number


We look forward to your urgent response for more details.

Yours Faithfully,

Dr.Ben Smith


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