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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: "Home Land Security" <info@lee.com>
Reply-To: <scm-cmpdept@consultant.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 08:41:23 -0700
Subject: Re:SCAM VICTIM COMPENSATION

GOOD DAY TO YOU

I hope this mail finds you in good spirit and in good health? because i am quite aware of your losses in the past years now, it may surprise you that i am also aware of your consignment boxes pursuit in Benin Ghana Togo Nigeria Spain France Malaysia Indonesia china and Korea .my name is Mrs. Janet Napolitano, the secretary of u.s department of homeland security of America, am in charge to monitored all foreign transactions in Africa Europe and Asia.

i have been in the U.S department of homeland security now since the government of president Donald trump, monitoring the various transactions going on in Africa, Europe and Asia, most especially consignments cases and bank transfer. i do not intend to spoil your Day or to put you under duress.

but you cannot receive any of your consignments boxes pursuit, without a clearance from the U.S department of homeland security. However, upon my arrival in Benin republic after series of meetings with our president Donald trump and united nations secretary general ban Ki-moon, due to numerous complaints from other security agencies from Africa Asia, Europe, Oceania, Antarctica, south America and the united states of America respectively, against the Benin government and Nigeria over the rate of scam/fraudulent activities going on in this country and Africa.

I want you to please stop communicating, and dealing with them until we complete our investigation. i wish to notify you about the latest development concerning your box of consignment that was handle over to me after the meeting held between me and some of the top parliament members of Benin and the foreign affair minster in the Benin capital headquarters cotonou, due to the delay for you not have received your consignment box for long time now.

Accordingly, we have waived away all your consignment box clearance fees and authorized the government of Benin republic to allow me fly with this your approved consignment box to you without any delay which they have agreed. The only fee you will pay to confirm your consignment box received in your possession is the weight fee of your consignment box which is sum of $300 only. So i want you to re-confirm to me the below information for proper understanding by filling the attach homeland security registration form okay.

Beneficiary name:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
tele phone:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Occupation:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Country:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sex:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As soon as i arrive i shall call you on your telephone number then meet you in person and hand over your consignment box to you before i return back to Washington dc.i have taken this assignment upon myself because i understand that you have really paid so much on the cost of delivery, but nothing was received by you. So be advice to contact me immediately you get this email now because everything has been done ok. This is directly from our president Donald trump.

When i arrive in the Benin parliament in cotonou, i found your consignment box clearance file lying on the foreign affair office desk without any attention on a thorough scrutiny i discovered that your consignment have been abandoned by your delivery agent. Meanwhile, i was made to understand that they have try to reach you, but no way and they have made several attempts to contact your delivery agent but to no avail.

to my greatest surprise, during my recent routine re-checking, i personally discovered that your consignment content declaration documents stated that your consignment contains personal effects meanwhile, it contains united states dollar bills worth over us$40 million dollars, which made it impossible for the consignment to be delivered to you earlier before now.
based on this personal discovery, i am contacting you now to let you know that with my position and power as the secretary of u.s department of homeland security, i can assist you to legally clear your consignment fund, but you must agree with the following conditions. because i have called our office in Washington, dc from Benin, who has been intercepting all your telephone calls, with the help of mtn, tigo Vodafone and Airtel network Benin.

you are advice to hence fort stop further dealings with all the above mentioned people, until we complete our investigation. Because you’re dealing with them is termed as illegal transaction.i wish to inform that we the homeland security is on lookout for all the above mentioned name, mostly those who claims to be the director of west African debt western union and money gram and property recovery Benin. All this mentioned people are impostor, and we intend to apprehend them soon.

NOTE:The fee as to be sent to this office which sum is $300usd As soon as you get back to this office details where to send the fee will be sent to. Also you are to forward to us any mail that you have been receiving from people for proper verification and investigation before you deal with them okay.

i have a very limited time to stay here so i would like you to urgently respond to this message with the payment, my dear, this is the opportunity for you and have to comply and your box shall be deliver to your designated address. But remember that after (3 days) you did not make the payment then i will divert your funds to us government fund or Benin government treasury. Please treat this as Matter of urgency.

SINCERELY YOURS,
Janet Ann Napolitano





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