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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: "Tony Ben" <tonyben@marsool.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:25:00 +0300
Subject: COMPENSATION



My Dear Good Friend,
I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred
under the cooperation of a new partne from paraguay.
Presently i'm in Paraguay for investmentprojects with my own share of the total
sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in
transferring those funds despite that it failed us some hoW
Now contact my secretary in Benin his name is GABREL ANDREWS on
gabrelandrews2@myway.com ask him to send you the total of $800.000.00 which i
kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in
this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. so feel free and
get in touched with my secretary GABREL ANDREWS and instruct him where to send
the amount to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy
after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I am very busy here
because of the investment projects which me and the new partner are having at
hand, finally, remember that I hadforwarded instruction to the secretary on your
behalf to receive that money, so feel free to get in touch with GABREL ANDREWS ,
he will send the amount to you without any delay.
NOTE :BELWO HERE IS THE REQUIRED INFORMATIONS YOU WILL SEND TO MY SECRETARY :
(1) YOUR FULL NAMES
(2) YOUR HOUSE ADDRESS
(3) YOUR DIRECT CELPHONE NUMBER AND HOUSE PHONE WITH FAX IF ANY .
(4) YOUR ID EITHER INTERNATIONAL PAS-PORT OR DRIVING LINCES .
Regards,
Bar tonthony ben .
COMPENSATION FROM BAR TONY BEN





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