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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 Brenda <infofiel@cantv.net>
Reply-To: Mr Richard Brenda <mr.richardbrenda@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:04:48 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Hello My Dear Friend ,


Hello My Dear Friend ,


I am Mr. Richard Brenda; I'm a south Africa national but live in Cotonou a city in Benin Republic. I work with one of the leading Bank's here in Cotonou-Benin Republic West Africa.

I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of(US$15.670M) to your account within 10 or 14 banking days, This money was deposited by a deceased customer, who died including his family and his supposed next of kin died on 25 Dec. 2003 being 727 plane crash in Cotonou-Benin Republic.

I am contacting you because his name is similar with yours. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim, I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer, I don't want the money to go into government treasury as an abandoned fund.

The bank will release the money to you as the next of kin to my late client. I am in the position to guide you towards this transaction and all I need from you is to stand as the NEXT OF KIN, so that upon your request for immediate transfer of the money the bank will not hesitate to transfer to your designated bank account. This money can be shared between us in the ratio  of 50/50% that means 50% will be your own share and the remaining 50% for  me.

If you accept this offer to work with me and find this proposal suitable for you do reply back  let’s discuss in details, upon the receive of your reply I will also forward to you the procedure and Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested. Kindly get back to me let's discuss in details and for next procedure .Kindly contact me back.

Thanks,
Mr Richard Brenda

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