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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: BRS PORT NOVO <banqregionaledesolidarite@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 20:35:43 +0000
Subject: From: Dr. Victor Jean Raimi.


From: Dr. Victor Jean Raimi.

Port Novo- Cotonou,

Republic Du Benin.



Dearest Friend,



I apologize if the content of this letter are contrary to your moral ethics, but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I have a business proposal which I know might interest you. My name is Dr. Victor Jean Raimi a banker with one of the big bank here in Republic Du Benin. I have a widow by name Mrs. Bernice Lucas in United Nation Refugee Camp who is on a political asylum here in Port Novo- Cotonou Republic Du Benin, she has been so ill for some couple of months now and need help from a foreigner to receive her family investment deposited fund in my bank.



This woman confided in me based on the free attention and little financial help I have been giving her and her daughter whenever she visited our bank, unknown to me they have a deposit sum with my bank. She had revealed to me of her life history and about her late husband who was a top politician and a business man in one of the West African country (Ivory Coast) before his death during the crises in her country some years ago and the fortune she inherited from her late husband. She has asked me to source a credible and trustworthy partner abroad who will manage her funds for investment because of her ill health, the sum of Eighteen Million USA Dollars (US$18M) which her late husband deposited with my bank here Republic Du Benin.



I wish to choose you for this venture and I believe you will be in the position to assist in managing this large sum in a profitable venture and also to help create a safe heaven for her and her daughter by making a residential arrangement for them in your country. After she had disclosed this information to me, I saw the reason to request from her to allow me see the documents relating to the deposit amount she told me about for confirmation from my bank, of which she did, now I have the documents covering the deposit. From my research on the deposit, the deposited fund must be transferred to a foreign account not in any account within the country of Republic Du Benin for investment, secondly until her daughter get to age of (27years) old before she will have full access to the fund.



I am obliged to assist this Woman knowing too well that she has a limited knowledge in the business world and as such she cannot manage this funds herself here in Republic Du Benin if eventually she survived from her ill health and her daughter get to conditional age placed on the deposited fund. I will need from you a mutual understanding and then we shall make plans on how the funds would be secured into an account in your name after which you will arrange and travel down here to meet with the bank for release/ transfer of the total fund to your country at the same time meet with the woman in person.



Note, reason for your assistance over this transaction as a foreigner is based on the condition of deposit made by the depositor, because of that I myself could not afford to lay claims on the funds as the woman family partner with the documents of deposited funds on my hand, that is why I am contacting you for this transaction for your help because the women made it clearly that she want to invest the fund in your country on Real Estate Project.



From my discussion with her, she has agreed to give out 25% of the total sum and 5% will be set aside to cover all expenses incurred during the transaction if any also 15% will be use for orphanages aid, then the remaining 55% will be invested with you in your country for a big profit returns and their future. If you are interested to stand in for her as their family partner please respond back to this email for more details and for directive to complete process of the fund transfer into your account as the late husband foreign partner.



Expecting your quick response to this email for more details and clarification. For security reason please reply me through this e-mail address: ( bgfipnovobj@hotmail.com )



Thanks and remain blessed for your understanding.



My sincere regards,



Dr. Victor Jean Raimi.

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