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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: ROSE NELSON <"www."@siren.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: ROSE NELSON <moneygrameoffice66@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:31:46 +0900 (JST)
Subject:

The International Monetary Fund Annual Compensation from USA.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating some scam
Victims and your email address were found in the scam victims list.
This MoneyGram®office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer your
Compensation to you via MoneyGram®Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through
MoneyGram®Money Transfer, $5000 par day until the total sum of
$5.3 Million USD is completely transferred to you the
Receiver. We cannot be able to send the payment with your email
Address alone, we are here by needed your information to where we will
be sending the funds.

Here is the information to pick up your first payment of $5000
through Money Gram store close to you.

Money Reference Number (REF):69133972
Sender's First Name: kejko
Sender's Last Name: use this last name and track your fund ike
Reference#69133972 (Track the Reference by visiting___
https://secure.moneygram.com/track)

GET BACK TO US WITH YOUR FULL INFO TO AVOID WRONG TRANSFER

Receivers name ______________
Country_______________
Address_______________
Phone Number _______________
Your Age_______________
ID copy_______________

BEFORE YOU CAN BE ABLE TO PICK UP YOUR FIST PAYMENT YOU WILL PAY FOR THE TRANSFER
CHARGE OF $95 so my dear we advice you to Proceed to any money gram around you and
make the payment of $95 usd so That we can proceed with your transfer with out any further delay.

HERE IS THE INFO YOU WILL USE TO SEND THE TRANSFER CHARGE THROUGH MONEY GRAM OFFICE

RECEIVERS FIRST NAME_____Marclo
RECEIVERS LAST NAME_____Udoh
COUNTRY__________BENIN REPUBLIC
CITY_____COTONOU
TEXT QUESTION_____URGENT
TEXT ANSWER ::::::;NEEDED
AMOUNT:::::::$95 USD

NOTE: That your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 42hours if we
did not hear from you because this was the instruction given to us by the IMF
Office here in BENIN REPUBLIC. We will start the transfer as soon as we received
Your information and the MTCN of the transfer charge

Best Regard
ROSE NELSON
moneygrameoffice66@gmail.com
TELEPHONE NO:(+229-99718618)

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