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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: "President of Benin Rep." <goedraw8@gmail.com>
Reply-To: federalbj7@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:51:15 -0800
Subject: To your Attention Beneficiary!


From Office of President Benin Rep

To your Attention Beneficiary!

Good day dear beneficiary. This is from the office of His Excellency
Presidency Patrice Talon. of Benin West Africa, I am writing this email to
inform you that after the meeting held in my office yesterday which consist
between the United States Embassy and the United Nations, African ECOWAS we
have concluded that you will be compensated with all the money you have
loosed in the hands of Africans and most especially Benin Republic and
Republic of Nigeria precisely.

After receiving many complaints that many was scammed through WESTERN
UNION, MONEY GRAM, BANK TRANSFER AND DELIVERY COURIER COMPANIES (ATM Card
and Consignment Packages) including CHAMBERS as well, so I’m pleading with
all scammed citizens that anyone that has been scammed due to one reason or
the other and for anything would be compensated back and no matter your
country or continent, AFRICA, ASIA PACIFIC, ENGLAND,EUROPE, ETC. all
scammed person(s) would be compensated and would be sent their compensation
funds. Am also sending the same message of the same content to all the scam
victims. If found in spam folder, it could be due to your Internet Service
Provider, ISP. So move to your inbox before your reply.

Furthermore, every client and beneficiaries would be sending their
compensation fund sum of $13.900,000.00,Thirteen million Nine Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars each. And this fund would be sent to you
through BANK DRAFT CHECK and it would be sent to you in form of an
executive enveloped sealed letter and there will nothing like any delivery
agent or courier company involved in this, perhaps, this letter would be
sent to you through POST OFFICE and would be sent directly to your home
address and P.O BOX.

Therefore, all beneficiaries is expected to send the below details for fast
procedure and immediate co-operation;

Full Name:
Country:
City:
Home Address:
P.O. Box Address:
Postal Address:
Occupation:
Telephone Number:

Finally, all the scammed beneficiaries would be sent this compensation fund
of $13.900,000.00 and the only money that would be involved in this would
be the posting fee of $85.00 each and this would be the only money that
would be paid by the beneficiary of the funds and that is all. Moreover,
there will be no C.O.D in this stated method of payment and every
beneficiary has only from now till the 5days to comply and correspond with
this office respectively.

Be informed to use this below information to make the payment of $85.00,
Send the posting fee through RIA money transfer

Receiver's Name: Olufemi Lomo
Country.........Benin
City......... Benin
Amount- - - -$85

Your urgent and fast response is highly needed and would be highly
appreciated, so as to enable this issue to be settled once and for all.

His Excellency
Patrice Talon
President of Benin Rep.
Email: federalbj7@gmail.com

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