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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.Richard Blanc <woodhouse_slt@pageonegroup.com>
Reply-To: <richardblancx011@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:44:35 -0800
Subject: business project,

Hello Dear,

My name is Mr.Richard Blanc ,staff of BANQUE ATLANTIQUE BANK BENIN, Admin / Investment Manager. I have a business project which I believed will be of mutual benefits to both of us. It involves an investment portfolio of an excess turn-over above our bank targeted turn-over at every end of each year.

At every end of each year, my bank has a targeted profit return of 20% of invested capital,but last year 2013,my office realized an excess turn-over of 21.2%, which i have already moved the excess of 1.2% to a suspense account in our bank. However, our bank has well over 58 investors both locally and internationally.

I am seeking your permission/concept to work with me to handle this business project, which i intend to present you to my bank as one of our foreign investors yet to receive his 2013 annual dividend payment from our bank,that is why the project requires a foreign Counterpart.

The 1.2% excess turn-over has been calculated to the volume of US$1.5Million, which you will provide any foreign bank account and the bank will pay in this volume as your dividend payment for 2013.


I have arranged to executed the project under a legitimate and officialmanner which will protect us from any breach of the law and you will be compensated adequately according to our agreed sharing ratio.

All I required is your concept, trust and honest cooperation to enable us see this project through. Also upon our commencement, both of us have to show total commitments as time will be of great importance in what we have to do.

If you are interested and prepared to work with me according to these dictates, please reply this mail immediately and send me the following below details, so that i will start to process all the bank official papers in your name,that will prove and identify you as one of our bank foreign investors:

1. Your Full Name and Address.

2. Your Country of Origin

3. Your Direct Contact Phone No.


4. Male / Female


Note upon the receipt of your reply mail, confirming your interest and acceptance for both of us to handle this project, we discuss the way forward, make assessments . After your basic understanding of the whole
business.

I wish you a pleasant day as I hope to read from you today.

Yours sincerely,
Mr.Richard Blanc

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