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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: SIR EDDY MICHAEL <officemoneygram141@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: SIR EDDY MICHAEL <westernunionofficebe@qip.ru>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:57:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: RE.contact western union for your scam victim compensation fund


 Attention,

SCAM VICTIM'S COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF BENIN REPUBLIC:
______________________________________________________
The International Monetary Fund(IMF) is compensating all the scam
victims and your email address was found in the scam victim's list.
This Western Union® office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer
your compensation to you via WesternUnion® Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through Western
Union® Money Transfer, $7000 daily until the total sum of $2.500,000.00
Thousand USD is completely transferred to you.

We can not be able to send the payment with your email address alone,
thereby we need your information's to where we will be sending the
funds to you, such as;

Receiver's name_______________
Address______________
Country__________________
Phone number______________
Attached copy of your Identification___________
Age ________________________
Email address___________
password__________________

Contact our Customer Care at Western union;
Email(westernunionofficebe@qip.ru)
with your full information's.

Note,that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72
hours if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to
us by the IMF.

We will start the transfer as soon as we received your informations:

Thanks yours Faithfully,
Pastor .SIR EDDY MICHAEL (+229(68376810]
Director Western Union® Money Transfer,
Head Office Benin Republic.

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