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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: cash release office <cashrelease.office51@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: cash release office <cashreleaseoffice645@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:30:40 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: CONTACT WESTERN UNION FOR YOUR PAYMENT1


 Dear customer,


This is to inform you that your name and your contact details was given to
this office in respect of your outstanding payment owed to you which you
have not been able to receive despite your considerable effort to
receive your payment and after been cleared by the authorized financial
regulatory bodies, it was also discovered that some unscrupulous
individuals aiming to frustrating all your efforts have removed some
vital documents from your payment file.

After much strict
scrutiny on your payment file, we discovered that some top government
officials especially in banks are working against your interest in this
case.
So to forestall any further atrocious act against you, we have
decided to settle your payment through western union money transfer,
which is the latest instruction from Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) the western union agent in charge of your payment will
be sending to you $5.000.00usd per a day until your total funds is
completely transferred to you, so if you like to receive your fund in
this way,

please contact the western union agent in charge of your payment -Mr. SAMSON WILLIAMS on his contact details below.

Your;
1. Full name,======
2. Phone number:==
3. Address=======  
4. Age:==========  
5. Occupation=====  
6.Country========  

We have been mandated by the WCOWAS parliament to issue out us$3.7m dollars in your favor this fiscal year 2015.

Also
for your information, you have to stop any further communication with
any other person (s) or office(s) to avoid any further hitches in
receiving your payment.

Note that because of impostors, we hereby
issued our code of conduct, which is (209) so you have to indicate this
code when contacting (Mr. SMASON WILLIAMS) the western union agent in
charge of your payment By using it as your subject.

Here below is
Dr. Samson Williams (the western union agent in charge of your
payment)'s contact details, Email:(( cashreleaseoffice645@gmail.com)) +229 98934620 you have
to contact him now and supply him your contact details as listed above
for him to start sending Your funds to you $5,000per a day without any
delay;

Mrs Gloria Uzor
Western Union Agent.
Cotonou Benin.
For the management of bank of Africa,
Cotonou, Benin.

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