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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: Manager Director for MoneyGram California <"www."@opal.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Manager Director for MoneyGram California <kevindevid8@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:26:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject: THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND COMPENSATION FROM USA.

THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND COMPENSATION FROM USA.
CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATE.
MONEYGRAM OFFICE. Hayward California,
201 Jackson St, Hayward, Ca, 94544 United State.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating some scam victims with $2.3 Million United States dollars and your email address was found in the scam victims list. This Money Gram®office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer your compensation to you via MoneyGram®Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to Transfer your own payment through MoneyGram®Money Transfer. $5,500.00USD will be transfer to you daily until the total sum of $2.3 Million United States dollars will be completely transfered to you. We cannot be able to send the payment with your email address alone, we are hereby needed your information where we can be sending the funds. You Can Text or Call us and fill below Information or email us via email.

(Receivers name)............
(Country).......................
(Address)................................
(Phone Number).....................
(Your Age)..................................
(ID copy)............. ..................

Contact the MoneyGram director with this information:
Name:Mr.evin Devid
Manager Director for MoneyGram California.
Private Email:kevindevid8@gmail.com
Office Tel: (408) 758-6926 Call or Text SMS!!

NOTE: That your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72hours if we did not hear from you. this instruction is given to us by the IMF here in California, USA. We will start the transfer as soon as we received your information. USA FBI is already on trace of this criminals.

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