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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: Victor Jean <dossouboni@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Victor Jean <raimivictor@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 15:42:29 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: From: Mr. Victor JEAN.


From:Mr. Victor JEAN.007/862,09 Bp 1971,Akpakpa, Cotonou,Republic Du Benin. GreetingsDearest Friend, Pleasemy sincere apology which this email contents may cause you. I am Mr. Victor JEANby name, also a confidential banker / account officer to late Gen. MatthewKerekou the former president of Republic du Benin on financial matters /foreign investment. During his regime as a military and civilian president, heacquired a lot of funds which he kept in a fix deposit with our bank here. Andhe (Late Gen. Matthew Kerekou) has been using a foreign company / individualsto carry out the transfer of these deposited funds as the bona fides owners onhis behalf as unpaid Contract Fund. Note, Iam contacting you in the same regards so as to present you / your company asone of the unpaid Contractors who has not received their contract funds fromgovernment of Benin. It may interest you to know that the late president hasused me to carry out all his transaction to overseas account with his partners,so you are free to have the total fund which I am presenting to you into youraccount once we both have agreed on this deal without any question fromgovernment / person here in Benin. From myrecords as the personal account officer to late president I have transferred tooverseas account on behalf of the former president over $700 Million Dollars toforeigners who he presented as some of the contractors for the unpaid contract paymentsto government of Benin. As a respected former Military and Civilian President,no one or government authorities here in Benin Republic questions his claimsregarding the funds as unpaid contract funds as labeled under his regime. Theentire amount transferred so far on his behalf was used for investment project inoversea countries which your country of resident is one of them. My mainreason of contacting you is that I want to present you to the Ministry ofFinance / Government of Benin and my Bank here, as one of the unpaid contractorswho are still expecting their payment from the government of Benin. You are to claimthe sum of ($18,000,000 Million) Dollars  as your unpaid contract sum which has not beenpaid to you for long as one of the contractors who have not receive theircontract payment during the past regime of Late Gen. Matthew Kerekou.  Nowthat he is dead I have all legal documents covering the unclaimed fund in mycare as personal account officer to the late President. Note this transactionwill be freely completed under your name / company (if any) without anyquestions from government of Benin because I have all the legal documents whichI will present to you empowering you for processing the claim as the legalcontractor/ unpaid contract amount. Beforethe death of Gen. Matthew Kerekou, I have given him an account of alltransaction carried out on his behalf with his foreign partners, I also gavehim the balance amount and remaining accounts which has not been transferredout of Benin a year before his death. But this ($18,000,000 Million) Dollarsand its contract file is not among the account / contract file I returned tolate President. Note,the transaction which I have contacted you about is between you and me not forthe late president or for family because the late president and his family arenot aware of this amount / account details only me his confidential bankofficer knows about it. If you are interested to work with me by standing asthe legal beneficiary / the contractor of the unpaid contract amount, pleaseget back to me immediately to enable me give you details on what to do foronward transfer of the fund to your bank account in your country or any countryof your choice you will want the fund to be transferred into for investmentproject between your family and mine. Pleaseobserve utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction will bemost profitable for both of us and for the future of our children/ generationto come. Awaiting your urgent reply for more details on the claim process inyour name if you are interested.  If forany reason you would not want to work with me, please destroy this letter anddo not make it to knowledge of anyone else for security reason.  YoursSincerely. Mr.Victor JEAN.

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