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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:10:28 +0100
Subject: NOTIFICATION ON YOUR INHERITANCE FUND.


Welcome to Western Union

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FROM THE DESK Of WESTERN UNION REMMITANCE DEPT

Our Ref : WUMT0XX2/987.



GOOD NEWS.

There is an issue with the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, UNITED STATE OF
AMERICA in the amount of $1.5 million USD directed in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03, at the owner of this email address . The INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY FUND contacted us for the release of your money a couple of hours
ago

due to your allocated security code.



They said that they choose to send it to you through western union instead
of courrier services because there's many fake courrier companies here so we
dont trust any of them. We are unable to complete a transfer directed at an
email address,so we require some more information in order to complete this
transfer.



FULL NAME:

FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:

MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:

MARITAL STATUS AND AGE:



CONTACT THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WITH THIS E-MAIL.
w.union_benin@live.fr Contact Person : Mr. Anthony Jefferson Note : That
this is not one of those Nigerian/African scams that all they are after is
to ripe you off your money and at the end you wil not receive your funds,
but note that this is no scam and is directly from the Management of Western
Union Money Transfer benin Republic Head Office and our Motto is To Serve
You Better. we will be sending you $ 9,000 United State Dollars every day to
transfer the total money to your account will cost you big money for the
transfer charge . That is why united nations order us to be sending you $
9,000 United State Dollars every day.



Contact Person: Mr Anthony Jefferson

E-mail : w.union_benin@live.fr.



Also note that you would be receiveing $ 9,000 for each transfer that's how
we are going to pay you your $1.5 million(United States Dollars) $ 9,000
United State Dollars per a transfer.THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY
TRANSFER, BENIN HEAD OFFICE. DISPATCHED THIS DAY.



Regards.

Pastor Dominic. (303)

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