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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: "Mr.Eric Morgan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wuniion@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:55:21 -0400
Subject: MTCN:619-067-2000

COMPENSATION

ATTENTION BENEFICIARY:

The below payment has been awarded to you by the Benin Republic Government with the support of

WorldBank to compensate you on the past experience you had with the Benin Republic scammers.
I write to inform you that we have already sent you $5,000.00 through Western Union as we have

been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment total sum of $1.5 million usd

viaWestern Union by the Government.

I have the authority to email you the MTCN and sender's details to enable you pick up the first

$5,000.00,USD and confirm receipt to us so as to enable us wire the next USD5,000.00 by tomorrow

and subsequent ones since we can only send USD$5,000.00 per day take note that you are to send to

us only the transfer charge which is 105 USD with this below reciever information to avoid any

delay.

RECEIVER'S NAME....ANUKWU RAPHAEL
COUNTRY....BENIN REPUBLIC
STATE..COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION...WHEN
ANSWER... NOW
AMOUNT NEEDED.....$105 USD
MTCN NUMBER...
SENDER'S NAME....

Please pick up this information below and go to any western union payment office in your country

and pick up the $5,000.00 as soon as this transfer charges is sent with the reciever info and

email the Western Union outlets in charge of the payment so that they could send you another

payment tomorrow.

Western Union contact information:
Manager: Dr.Paul Ben
Email: wuniion@yahoo.cn
PHONE: +229-682-211-30
Email us once you picked up the $10,000.00 today, if there is any
problem with them paying you make sure to contact this Western outlet
with the information given to you above.

Please you are advice to fill the form bellow to enable easy recognition.

Full Name...............................
Age......................................
Sex..................................
Occupation................................
State..................................
Country.................................
Direct Telephone Number.............

Below is the western union information for pick up your payment but due to the transfer charges

of $105 usd have not been sent by you it will be difficult for you to pick it up untill you send

them the transfer charge fee of $105 usd and make sure as soon as you send it call the director

incharge of your payment with the phone contact below for the mtcn.

MTCN:619-067-2000
Sender's Name:UDE EDWIN
Question: Colour
Answer: Pink
Amount: $10,000.00

We shall be expecting your call once you pick up $10,000.00

Yours in Service,
Mr.Eric Morgan
Email; morganmr.eric@yahoo.com

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