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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: bannym172@gmail.com
Reply-To: <>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 01:30:24 +0200
Subject: Un artículo de Veintepies.com de: bannym172@gmail.com

Este artículo de Veintepies.com le ha sido enviado por Marcel

Mensaje Personal:
From: Mr. Marcel Banny.
Add: Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

Hello,
My name is Mr. Marcel Banny, the principal treasury officer with one of the prime banks in Cote d’Ivoire. I have decided to contact you through this medium based on a business proposal, which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. I discovered your email through comprehensive web email search on directory so I decided to contact you. I know this might sound like scam to you because of a lot of activities going on in the internet today. But I assure you that this is real.

I am the personal accounts manager to one of our late client, a national of your country, who used to work with an oil servicing company here in Cote d’Ivoire, the late client made a numbered time (fixed) deposited for twelve calendar months, valued at €16,500,000.00 (Sixteen Million Five Hundred Thousand European Euro) in my branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, PETRO-CI Corporation that my client died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a will and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his bank deposit paperwork.

This sum of (€16,500,000.00) is still sitting in the bank and the interest is rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it. According to the law of Cote d’Ivoire, at the expiration of 8{Eight} years, the money will l revert to the ownership of the Cote d’Ivoire government if nobody claims the funds.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to deceased person for the fact that you have same last name with him so that this money will not be reverted by the government. If this request matches with your inward intention for success and greatness, then you are urged to make a quick response indicating your interest and readiness to participate and work with me to make this successful.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. In your return mail, please do forward your information as listed below if you are willing to complete this deal with me, to enable me put the total fund in your name for claim as the next of kin to the deceased person:

Your full name:
Your contact address:
Your phone number:
Your age:

I wait for your urgent reply.

Regards,
Mr. Marcel Banny.

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Obras Públicas invertirá más de dos millones de euros en el desdoblamiento de la carretera entre Elx y Santa Pola

La Conselleria de Vivienda, Obras Públicas y Vertebración del Territorio ha iniciado la tramitación de la licitación de las obras de duplicación de calzada de la carretera CV-865, Elx - Santa Pola, entre la intersección con la CV-851, en la Vereda de Sendres, y el inicio del tramo ya duplicado de acceso a Santa Pola. Simultáneamente, se está incoando el expediente para la obtención de los terrenos necesarios para la ejecución de las obras.

Según ha informado el director general de Obras Públicas, Transporte y Movilidad, Carlos Domingo, "el presupuesto de la actuación asciende a 2.006.659 euros y el plazo de ejecución es de 18 meses". La carretera CV-865, de la red de carreteras de la Generalitat es la vía que conecta Elx con Santa Pola y sirve de acceso a la pedanía de Valverde, al polígono industrial de Santa Pola y a diversas urbanizaciones y casas diseminadas.

Además, Carlos Domingo ha apuntado que "esta obra forma parte del conjunto de actuaciones previstas por la conselleria en la carretera CV-865, Elx - Santa Pola, para mejorar las condiciones de circulación y los niveles de seguridad vial de un eje que soporta en la actualidad un tráfico bastante elevado, con una intensidad media de 17.221 vehículos diarios" .

"Con esta actuación, el departamento que dirige María José Salvador quiere mejorar la fluidez del tráfico y de las condiciones de seguridad vial de los vehículos, peatones y ciclistas que circulan por este tramo de la carretera CV-865 mediante la duplicación de calzada y la reordenación de las intersecciones y accesos existentes, dotando a la carretera de unas características de vía parque", ha destacado el director general.

La actuación contempla el desdoblamiento de la calzada existente, la cual pasará a tener dos calzadas de dos carriles cada una, separadas por una mediana de 1,20 metros de ancho, en la que va dispuesta la instalación de alumbrado, así como la reordenación de accesos y la supresión de una glorieta partida existente. Para el resto de usuarios, peatones y ciclistas, se ha previsto la sustitución de los carriles bici actuales por una acera de 2,50 metros de ancho en la margen derecha y un carril mixto ciclo-peatonal de 3,50 metros en la margen izquierda, el cual da continuidad al ya ejecutado.

Por su parte, los ayuntamientos de Santa Pola y Elx colaborarán con la Conselleria de Obras Públicas mediante la cesión de los terrenos urbanizables y urbanos necesarios para la construcción de estas obras.

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