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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: Evelyn Benson <evelynbeonson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:25:30 +0200
Subject: Can I Trust You With This?

Dear Friend,

I hope my e-mail meets you well. I am in need of your co-operation. My name
is Ms Evelyn Benson and with my colleague Paul Maks both of us based in
London,United Kingdom. We are staff of a Safe Storage Security Company here
in the UK.we have $11 Million US dollars stored away that we want to move
out of the country in two digital boxes. My colleague and I need a good
partner out there, someone we can trust to receive the funds on our behalf.

We have made arrangements with a Diplomat who will move the funds out of
The UK as a Diplomatic Baggage, also we can make arrangement to transfer
the said fund to your instructed country bank account depending on what you
want. The most important thing is; Can We Trust you once the funds gets to
you. simply take out 30% as your share and keep the remaining 70% for us.
Your own part of this deal is to find a safe place Where the funds can be
sent to, ours is sending it to you safely.

Once again,We can make arrangements to transfer it to your bank account
from a UK bank to your bank account you will provide in case you wouldn't
prefer a diplomat to deliver cash at your address.


If you are interested we will furnish you with more Details upon receipt of
your response and contact details. But we can assure you the whole process
is simple and we must keep a low profile and high degree of confidentiality
at all times in order to guarantee a safe and successful execution that
will benefit us all.

We look forward to your reply and co-operation.

Yours truly partners,

Evelyn & Paul

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