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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: "Mr. Benard Uka" <noreply1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: benarduka2024@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:26:56 +0100
Subject: Urgent Business Proposal


ATTN: Sir,&nbsp;How are you doing today? I am contacting you just to inform you about the transaction which I so much believed that you will welcome this Great opportunity. I am just considering to inform you about this project at hand right now, regarding late friend of mine who was former deputy Finance Minister and Economic Planning in republic of Cote d’Ivoire during the regime of former president Laurent Gbagbo, in which his son Mr. Simon Seydou contacted me early hour of today which we can easily execute within one week. My friend's son made me understand that before the civil war started in the republic of Cote d’Ivoire, his late father already made a deposit of Fifty Million United State of American dollars only ($50,000,000.00) in a private Security Company in Germany for Safekeeping and investment projects. Right now the family has made up their mind to start making use of the fund, which made them to send one of their trusted family members who was among the teams that accompany their late father during the time the deposit was made into the private Security Company in Germany to represent the family over there in Germany for claim and invest the fund into any lucrative venture in your country or any country with good political stability. According to the family representative who visited the private security company in Germany, on the process of trying to claimed the Trunk Box out from Security Company before he realized that the money was defaced into Black Coded Form for security reasons, in which the family has made so many efforts to applied for the “Activate Solution Material” over there in Germany but couldn't succeed, before the chemist decided to refer them to Brazil where the Activate Solution Material can easily be purchase. What really motivated me to inform you about this transaction because the family is really capable to handle the cost of the expenses both in Brazil and Germany, in which they have already paid the sum of "One Hundred and Sixty Thousand United State of American Dollars only" (US$160,000.00) to the German security company for the cleaning materials, but they couldn't get any trusted one who will travel to Brazil to pick up the Activate Solution Materials and deliver to Germany due to VISA problem as Africans, because since the international community started lock down and fighting war against terrorism the German government and Brazil government has restricted their VISA especially to the West African citizens, based on the above reasons the family decided to contacted me to assist them because i earlier made them to understand that i have a German businessman who happen to be my business associate, which i believed you can easily travel from Germany to Brazil and pick up the materials and deliver to your country Germany, because as a German citizen you have every immunity to travel to Brazil and pick up the Activate Solution Materials at the same time deliver right into your country Germany, because your country is VISA free to Brazil. Meanwhile I stated my Terms and Condition to the family as Follow:- 1. You need to get yourself ready and come down to South Africa, because the family has agreed to arrange round trip flight tickets and hotel accommodation for you both in Brazil and Germany, upon your arrival in Brazil the manufacturing company representative will bring you the sum of $500 to enable you handle your hotel accommodation and feeding, within 2 working days the delivery agent will deliver the cleaning materials together with another sum of $500 in which you will receive in Brazil as your Basic Traveling Allowances (BTA), when you return back to Germany before you hand over the items to the cleaning company representative in Germany another sum of $1000 will be giving to you to enable you wait until the cleaning process completed within 48hours. 2. Within 48 hours in which you deliver the cleaning materials to the German cleaning company, the cleaning process will be fully completed in which the cleaning company will move the entire fund into one of top German bank to enable you represent the family over there in Germany as their family representative to open two (2) online foreign bank account as they are non-resident in Germany, at the same time you will apply for Master Credit Card so that the family can always access their fund anywhere in the world through ATM.. 3. The family has agreed to compensate both of us with 20% of Fifty Million United States of American dollars only($50,000,000.00), meaning our share will be US$10,000,000.00 in which we share 70/30 (US$7. Million) for you and (US$3. Million for me. I need your urgent response for us to proceed. Yours faithfully, Mr. Benard Uka

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