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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: "Mrs. Antonia Emmanuel" <mikejohn995@gmail.com>
Reply-To: westernunion1192@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:57:36 +0530 (IST)
Subject: ( CODE: 001 ) REGARDING YOUR PAYMENTS






Attention My Dear Friend:
This is to inform you that this office was instructed to pay your fund   $1.5Million U.S.A Dollars by America security leading team and America representative embassy between now until end of OCTOBER 2012 per day you will receive the sum of USD5000.00Dollars,However be informed that we have send the sum of USD5000.00 Dollars this morning to avoid cancellation of your payment you have only SIX hours to call this office upon the receipt of this email the maximum amount you will be receiving per day starting from today is USD5000.00 in three different payments and the Money Transfer Control Number of today is below.
 
Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN)1811874694
Sender's First Name: Alex
Sender's Last Name: Scoth
MTCN: 1811874694
Question-=============IN GOD?
Test Answer==========WE TRUST
Amount===============$5000.0
 
Once again be advice to reconfirm your information such as;
 
RECEIVER NAME____
COUNTRY___________
CITY________________
TEL_________________
TEST QUESTION______
ANSWER_____________
this is contact email (westernunion1192@yahoo.com.hk)
 
Furthermore you advised to call us as the instruction was passed that within six hours without hearing from you. Count your payment canceled. DIRECT PHONE LINE IS +229-999 240 58 USD5000.00,Please Give me a call Immediately you receive this email because I need to be calling you once we send any payment for the information’s.
Best Regard's
Mrs. Antonia Emmanuel
 

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