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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: Money Gram <officeofficc824@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Money Gram <mgt146@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:06:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Are you the one that sent him


 Attn  My dear,
We received an email this morning from unknown person; call Mr. Helen Robertson who presented his details and a telephone number with a resident address, saying that you gave him the power of attorney to make your claims of your fund that you are not able to complete the transaction. Please try and get back to us immediately before we instruct him to pay for the required fee which is $58 and have the fund of $2.8 Million Dollars release to him.Because  he have agreed to pay the fee today but we want to confirm from you before we proceed on the release of the fund to his address because you are delaying and you are joking with the transaction since. 

But I don't want you to loose this fund I invested on this transaction and I will forward his name and the address to the economic and financial crime commission (EFCC) office as soon as I hear from you and we will go court to make the changing of the ownership.So get back to me asap so that we can finished this transaction because I already forwarded the power of attorney to supo kenedy the custom in united states of America (usa) but bear in mind that after this email and we did not hear from you, your funds of $2.8 Million Dollars will release to him as he stated that you are the one that sent him to claim the payment as because he was your next of kin.
Bellow is the information's he sent to us.Name: Mr. Helen Robertson.Address: kemuning ray stree no.8tomang.jakarta (USA)Delivery address no.51.jakartz (USA)
So your urgent response will be highly appreciated. Feel free to call me on my direct line +229-98977544  if you have any queries. If you did not gave him power of attorney to claim this fund just walk to western union office now and send this $58 or else this fund will be release to him. Send the $58 through Western Union or MONEY GRAM money transfer with information below
Mr. Tony Frank.Money Gram Payment Unitmgt146@yahoo.com

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