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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: "Dr. Labuter Thomas" <"uba."@solid.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Dr. Labuter Thomas" <dr.labuterthomas4@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:39:22 +0900 (JST)
Subject: WAIVER CLEARANCE OF PERMIT CERTIFICATE

FROM DESK OF REV. DR LABUTER THOMAS,
United Bank Of Africa


Good Day My dear,

I want to make you understand something in life that you failed to realize, I
want you to have at the back of your mind that all this while you have been
dealing with fake people, claiming to be western union/money gram and banks
official, I have never slept a day without being worried about your issue since
I entered into this custody of United Bank Of Africa.I have been keeping this
as a secret, but I want to open up to you at this very moment avoid Judgment
day in the present of Almighty God, do you really know what holding your
payment over and over, paying your earned money without result is because of
(WAIVER CLEARANCE OF PERMIT CERTIFICATE) look, I want you to do me a favor by
keep this issue secret. For your sake just to be honest and integrity, I am
praying day and night towards this case, once i sight mine eyes on your
contract compensation award winner, you spend a lots yet no conclusion, I
believed that God use someone to save somebody, as the matter of in fact with
the hope that this transfer have come to the end for you to receive your
payment as I took this bold step, what I mostly needed from you is honest and
integrity also keeping this secret and confidential.

Right now, this might interest you to know the main reason while I keep on
exposed below reference issue to you today just to be awareness about what
really holding your payment upon all the monies you have paid is (WAIVER
CLEARANCE OF PERMIT CERTIFICATE) without the document, there is no ways the
expecting contract award winner compensation will ever paid to you, point of
correction, don't ever you ignore below messages, it is yours times for God to
answer your prayer, Well, I wouldn't say I regretted taking such step because I
don't knew how much you have also paid so far in this issue. But my pains and
agonies is much each times I saw your file form record, you're always feeling
cheated or swindled.

Well, a times I seat down and thinks of this other way round with the firm
believe that you sometimes act funny just because of the bad name and
reputation of this country also with your past experience with some of those
hoodlums. But when I seat down in my office sometime last week and saw your
payment file, I was trying to contact you personally with the hope of helping
you out of the mess you have faced so far with those criminals, but I still
understand partially that you are still somewhat believing in those hoodlum's
fake letters and documents, look, you need a prayer just ask God to opened your
eyes well, by review a personal person to trust in order to have your fund paid
to you.

Considering the state of affairs at hand, I will be glad to notify you for the
last time what holding your payment sake and you have also lost money too, but
I want you to know our stands now because the UN,FBI & INTERPOL are so
concerned why I have not yet gotten this fund of yours paid to you since, but I
found out that my explanation makes no sense/ or difference to them, all they
are after is for me to make sure I get this done before the end of this week.
Please! Please! & please! Can you help yourself out from this matter so we can
forget about our agonies once and for all? Can you trust me for once for me to
trust you as well so we can work out things? I want to be plain to you so you
can be plain to me as well. According to my meeting with this reliable bank
manager today,He made it clear to me that instead of him demanding for fees
upon fees; why don't we pay the whole needed fee for once and get this fund
transferred or delivered immediately to you If you're ready to comply with the
US$200 Finally,I would love you to open up to me if I should forward a letter
of declaration to you for you to sign on it stating that you're no more
interested in making this claim so I can forward to the bank,UN, FBI &
INTERPOL. But if you're still interested in making the claim, kindly try and
send down the needed fee today so I can make all arrangement with the bank to
avoid misunderstanding

Below is the information you will use to send the $200 via money gram or
western union money transfer.

RECEIVER NAME ……BUCHI MIKE
COUNTRY:::::::BENIN REPUBLIC
CITY::::::COTONOU
AMOUNT……..$200 USD
MTCN…….
SENDER NAME ……….

I await your prompt response,

Regards,

Dr. Labuter Thomas
United Bank Of Africa.

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