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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: Benjamin Oliver <mahipat.patel@vijayheatindustries.in>
Reply-To: benjamin_oliver1@hotmail.com
Date: 13 May 2021 17:19:20 +0800
Subject: I SEEK YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN A BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Greetings,

How are you today and your family? Want to believe you are all
doing great. I contacted you through this medium for a business
that will benefit the both of us greatly, if handled properly. Am
sure that we can conclude this in less than two weeks or less.
And I want our communication to be basically through this secured
email to maintain the needed confidentiality and also for safety
and security reasons.

I got your contact through the International directory and i
contacted you through a secured high email protocol service these
messages might come to you as a surprise, the most important
thing is that its objective is made and communicated for this
reason.

I am Mr.Benjamin Oliver chartered accountant to Great America
Bank i write you this proposal in good faith hoping that i will
rely on you in a business transaction that require absolute
confidentiality and of great interest and benefit to our both
families, I want to ask for your help in getting back the money
left behind by a citizen of your country, Late Mr. Timothy
Ceyisakar. If this will endanger your position and reputation, I
would not have contacted you. This is safe and beneficial to both
of us financially. I was his account officer before i rose to the
position of Managing Director of our bank here in Kansas, United
States of America and please do not expose this transaction for
any reason. I will give you more information about myself, our
bank and the transaction itself once you accept to do this with
me.

Late Mr. Timothy Ceyisakar lived and worked in Kansas, United
States of America as a businessman who is a Fuel Oil Trader he
deposited in our bank the sum of ten million, eight hundred
thousand US Dollars (US$10,800,000.00) as fixed deposit for a
period of two years in 2017. This deposit has matured and he
hasn’t come for it since then. We have tried to reach him and
could not his telephone number cannot be reached, emails sent to
him kept returning back as undelivered and we never got any
response from the letters posted to his residential address. This
issue prompted me to carry out an independent investigation about
his whereabouts and i later realized with shock that he was shot
dead sometime in December 2018 by criminals who robbed them while
on vacation in India. In order to verify the truth of the matter,
I went to India and confirmed he was dead, it is a sad story for
a kindhearted and generous person like him. This matter was not
reported to our bank and nobody in our bank is aware of this
except me.

I have on my own made inquiries at embassy here in the United
States and no information of him was found. I have also checked
our records and he did not put a nominee at the time he made the
deposit. All these made it impossible for me to locate any of his
relatives. Since this is the issue, I want you to apply as the
beneficiary of the deceased to claim the deposit from our bank
since it is believed his a citizen of your of your country, it
does not matter if you have any kind of relationship with him or
not, I will guide you all the way to make this claim. It is not a
matter of being greedy or having bad morals, it is not the best
to leave the money to eventually end up in the hands of a few
corrupt government officials while we have the opportunity to
live better with it. This transaction is a risk-free transaction.

We will share the money into two equal parts (50:50) for each of
us when the claim is made. Everything will be done successfully
and legally, have no fear about this. Right now, I have all the
copies of documents relating to the deposit he made that you will
file to back up this claim. All i require is your sincerity and
honest cooperation to enable us make this claim successfully and
we have to do this within the shortest time possible because the
money will be reverted to the Treasury Department account if not
claimed now. If you are willing to do this with me, write back
and i shall inform you on what next to do to make sure you
receive the money. I am waiting for your consent in order to move
to the next step towards getting the money.

Thank you and God bless you.

Yours sincerely,
Mr. Benjamin Oliver.

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