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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. Janeth Eze" <myxilacalvery@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Janeth Eze" <m_gram96@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:41:33 +0900 (JST)
Subject: HELLO DEAR BENEFICIARY HOW ARE YOU DOING ?,

This is to inform you that your compensation of $9.3 million U.S.D has being approved yesterday for the immediate transferring to you on daily basic payment via Money Gram Money Transfer which you will be receiving $7,500.00 u.s.d par day.
 
Now kindly reconfirm your receiving details below:
Your name..............
Your country............
Your phone no...........
Your address…………/city............
Your age………. /sex..................
 
 
Now all you need to do is to contact Money Gram Director:( Mr. Ashley Ben ) and he will send you the sum of $7,500.00 today so contact by email or thru phone call +229-67612782 as soon as you receive this latter and ask him to give you the more information about what you need to do ., Please let us know as soon as you received all your fund,
 

NOTE THAT THIS COMPENSATION IS FROM THE (U.N & ECO-WAS) FOR OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC MELTDOWN
 
Regards
Mrs. Janeth Eze
From Ministry of Finance
Benin Republic West Africa

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