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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: "MR. PATRIC TALON" <mm1@xcvbvcxzcvb.website.tk>
Reply-To: <ourcustomers@yandex.com>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 14:45:29 +0100
Subject: Good Day, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY BENIN REP.

Good Day,

Benin Swears In New President

>From the Presidential Office Benin republic, under the care of MR. PATRIC TALON.

As the new President of Benin republic since date 6th April 2016, I was going through the Office Documentation pertaining to all the International Transaction and it pains my Hearth as these International Transfer Documents where all filled with unfinished transactions and during my proper Investigation in regards to all these Unfinished transactions in conjunction with other relevant Investigation agencies, I hereby to inform you that I have recently received several reports through our State Global intelligence monitoring networks that you have a transaction in Africa which wasn’t accomplished after series of process.

Consequently, I finally traced the location of all your funds outside your State and have ordered the transferring of the funds to a safe custody BANK OF AMERICA, Henceforth the mentioned Bank institute BANK OF AMERICA Will be facilitating the transferring of your funds into your account in your country anywhere in the world as soon as possible, this decision was made from this OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY due to the rate of corruption and scam reports perpetrated by Individuals and Government offices and companies in Africa therefore your funds was ordered to be transferred to USA immediately for safety purposes.

The transferring of your funds to BANK OF AMERICA was successfully executed today and I have just received a confirmation from the BANK OF AMERICA that the funds valued the sum of $25.5Million Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars was received by their Bank management, therefore am officially contacting you in this regard by letting you know that your funds are presently at BANK OF AMERICA

Finally you are advised to completely terminate all your conversation or correspondent with any other individual, authority or office in Africa who claims to be in the custody of your funds because your funds was officially transferred to USA today under our instructions therefore you should completely quit all conversations with any other individual or group except the BANK OF AMERICA. Comply with all the above instruction and directives accordingly to enable the wire transfer of your Fund without any delay.

Therefore reconfirm your bellow details and you will be provided with the information to contact the BANK OF AMERICA to release your Fund.

Your personal profile is needed Profession, names, age, gender, telephone number and full address.

Yours sincerely,
MR. PATRIC TALON,
(Incumbent) President Of Benin republic
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY BENIN REP.

E-mail: ( ourcustomers@yandex.com )
(+229)-666-802-69

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