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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: "Western Union Money Transfer" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kentexma@07168.cn>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:31:39 +0100
Subject: Payment Notification!

I wish to inform you that We have sent 5000.00 USD
already, that was given to you by the United
Nations,(ECOWAS) as we are mandated to send you the total
sum of 450,000USD through Western Union. Send name,
address, phone number. we have Process your first payment
of $ 5,000 USD.to collect / Sender: Malcolm Vaughan
MTCN 605-279-1782, you can track at www.westernunion.com
before going to pick it up, United Nations and (ECOWAS)
are supporting individial due to the worldwide economy
meltdown, your email was luckly picked among 100other
people.

Mr. Ken Texman
Phone: +234-803 379 5507
Contact Email: kentexma@07168.cn

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