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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: Rev_William <tachtsi@otenet.gr>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:25:50 -0700
Subject: Urgent Reply



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Dear Friend,

Greetings, am very sorry for taken too much of your time at this moment
but please try to understand and bear with me as you go through this
urgent message, anyway my name is Rev john william i have tried reaching
you on mail all this while, but you fail to respond back to me,please be
aware that your matter came to my desk which were dated since on the
28-1-2017 months ago, with the total funds of $450,000 United State
Dollars, frankly speaking you are very lucky because you are going to
receive your first (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD after
responding to our mail, all this while your transfer has been stop
because it was under investigation of money laundry by the Ministry of
Information and National Orientation and that was the reason your name
were among those who were blacklisted but now we have settle your
problem and removed your name from the blacklist, so your funds is free
for transfer
over to you now.

This is your (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD:

(1)5645-3?63 - $1,500USD
(2)6426-475? - $1,500USD
(3)9635-?438 - $1,500USD
(4)3466-49?5 - $1,500USD
(5)7416-37?5 - $1,500USD
(6)6406-24?5 - $1,500USD
(7)6004-14?5 - $1,500USD
(8)8426-94?5 - $1,500USD

Please do forgive me for taking much of your time for going through this
mail which you will conclude by saying that it is just a common thing to
you every- day if am not mistaken, we knew that at least you have
encounters numbers of similar mails like this before, but please do not
mistake that everybody who reach you are all scammed or either a
fraudster as well.I agree with you that you have every right to decide
not to make any up-front payment if even we do ask for fees/charges from
you because of your past scam experiences you had in the pass through
all this time,but I want to assure you that we are doing our very best
to make sure that
we get those people arrested that are spoiling the image of our company
or who claim to be our staffs by using different name's to scam
foreigners like you,we assure you that they will surely get arrested as
soon as we have full information's of their were-about.

But the only thing you have to do now to receive your funds is as easy
and simple if only you urge to follow my advise, as a respectable and
honest people, we normally gives 100% risk-free to all our customers
with a limited payment, due to the up coming event inside our bank, I
have the right to penetrate any office's whenever our customer's find
difficulties.

Please take note of this and see the differences because you will surely
testify to your friends, families, partners who had been mocking you all
this while, the only thing we need from you is to obtain the (A.R.O.)
Authorization Release Order, which will reflect in any Money-Gram Office
in your country,stating that you are not a victim or you are not a party
of money laundry, the (A.R.O) Authorization Release Order will only cost
you the sum of $65 USD (only) remember that this is the only charges for
you to pay before your (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD will be
release to you today. You are to send the requested A.R.O. fee to bellow
information by means of MoneyGram and Western Union Transfer

Receiver Name:.. Mar Torah
Country: Benin Republic.
Question: Bonus.
Answer: Bonus.
Amount: $65
Sender....... & transfer
code#.....

MY CONTACT INFO IS THIS.
NAME:..Rev john williams
E-MAIL:...( Rev_William@outlook.com )
Phone:..(+229)98794190

Please try and make the $65 usd transfer as soon as possible and send
the complete payment details across to me, I hope to hear from you
soonest so that we can proceed with your transfer immediately.

Yours Sincerely,

vivian douglas
Managing Director Bank of africa,
Rev John William

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