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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: MoneyGram <smtpfox-8ylkm@drsalt.co>
Reply-To: monygram@fastservice.com
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:15:00 +0000
Subject: MTCN number: 84123932



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Attention Beneficiary,
This is to inform you that the office of the Embassy of America was
instructed to transfer your fund of $ 985,000.00 in US dollars to
compensate all the VICTIMS OF THE SCAM and your email was found as one
of the VICTIMS. by the leading security team of America and the
representatives of America as of April 18, 2018, you will receive a sum
of $ 5000 dollars per day. However, you will be informed that we have
already sent the $ 5,000 this morning to avoid canceling your payment,
leaving the total amount of $ 980,000.00.

You only have 48 hours to email this office, once you receive this
email, the maximum amount you will receive per day from the current $
5,000 and today's Cash Transfer Control Number. NOTE; The $ 5,000 sent
is on hold due to instructions from the IMF office, we were asked to
leave it on hold requesting the (Clean Billing Record Certificate) to
fulfill all the obligations necessary to avoid setbacks while we send
the payment to through Money. Gram transfer, the necessary obligation
that I want to say here is to obtain the (Clean Bill Registration
Certificate) and it will cost you only $99.

Use this site:www.moneygram.com to track your transfer online to see it
is in progress until you send the validation fee of $ 99 is sent, but
if we do not receive news from you, we will pick it up soon for security
reasons to prevent hackers from stealing the money online.

1) MTCN number ::: MTCN number: 84123932
2) Quantity ::: $ 5000.00 USD.
3) Test question: Color
4) Answer: blue
5) Amount: $ 5000.00

We need the details below, to allow us to place the payment in your name
and transfer the fund to you.
(Full name of the recipients) ...............
(Your country)...................
(Address) .......................
(Phone number).....................
In addition, you are advised to send us an email with the validation fee
of $99 so that you will go and pick up your first payment! but if we
did not hear from you within 48 hours,this payment will be canceled!!!

Thanks,
Mr. James Thomas.
Contact me on WhatsApp: +1 (205) 668-5662

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