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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. Jeffery Umeh" <rwhite.@herb.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Rogers White" <w.uinfo86@mail15.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:22:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Contact western union now for your payment,

Hello dear,

We have deposited your payment check of ($2,700.000.00USD) through Western Union office today after our finally meeting regarding the fund, so all you need now is to contact Western Union office immediately and he will give you full direction of how you will be receiving the transfer daily from their service.Remember to reconfirm him your receivers full information of the payment to avoid wrong transfer,it's such as,

Receiver's Name:_______________
Country: ____________________
Address: ___________________
Phone Number: _____________
Sex and ID:_______________

Note my agreement with them is to be transferring $5000 each day to your name due to their office daily transfer limit, and this will continue until the total fund is completely transfer to you,and here is the director contact information for you to contact him to enable him give you the full details of how the transfer will be coming to you like as i have little explained to you above.

Mr. Rogers White
e-mail:( w.uinfo86@mail15.com )
Office phone#: +229 98544307.

Hoping your update confirmation right away soon as you start confirming your transfer from the western union office.

Sincerely,
Mr. Jeffery Umeh

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