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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: benjohn2209@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 20:01:12 +0700
Subject: INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, ABUJA-NIGERIA.

A SUBSIDIARY OF NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION)
PLOT 128, INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, ABUJA-NIGERIA.
OFFICE TELEPHONE:
Email.benjohn2209@gmail.com
Attention: The Chairman/CEO

Sir, thanks for a good piece of information I gathered about you in my request
to get an honest and trust worthy person for this business transaction. I am
Dr Ben John A director general with Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG).

I have a total amount of $25,000,000.00 US dollars which I want to transfer to
a foreign account for save keep and investment. The money accured as a result
of over invoicing during the construction of the second phase of the NLNG
Plant at bonny- Port-harcourt.

However as a servant in Nigerian, we are not allowed to have foreign bank
account. I will offer you 30% of the total amount if you can produce bank
accounts where the fund will be transferred into for save keep investment, 5%
set aside for all expenses in the course of the transaction while the
remaining 65% will be for (officials). It may interest you to know that late
last year, I executed similar transaction of this nature with an Osaka – Japan
based multi millionaire business woman – Mrs. KonamiYamamoto.

When the money was eventually transferred into her bank account in Japan, she
surprisingly seized the whole money without repatriating my own share.
Hence, due to this past traumatic experience, your honest and transparency is
of high demand. However due to strict confidential reasons, you are required
to reply this letter by indicating your interest through this email
.benjohn2209@gmail.com
you are also required to state your personal email address, bank account
number, phone
number, photograph or international passport in your reply. I am expecting
your reply and your interest.

Your regard,
Dr Ben John
Director General (NLNG)

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