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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: "Western Union Foundation®" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <westernunion.2009@mail.mn>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:30:17 +0700
Subject: From Western Union Foundation 2009®

Western Union Foundation
Send and Receive Money Worldwide
Address: PO Box 10400,V.Viroj Building 89/1 Soi Ratchataphan Rd.,
Rachataevee,Bangkok Thailand.
REF NO: 245/0090/09
BATCH: 2009/wumt/393
=============================================================================

Western Union Foundation (WUF),This is to officially inform you that
you have been given a financial grant as our dear valued esteem
customers by the Board of Director (WUF) as one of our final
recipients to benefit from (WUF) . The sum of Five hundred Thousand
United States Dollars ($500,000.00 USD) has been granted to you, our
dear esteem customer by (WUF). This benefit given to you is part of
our customers valued added services, this services is to aid our esteem
customers who have financial difficult, bankrupt, lost their
investment/jobs as a result of the global meltdown. This development
is to help solve the Global Meltdown

Western Union Foundation was established in 1997, with the main
objective of empowering and aiding customers, assisting poor country
, communities ,co-organization and N.G.O by providing financial
grants through its opportunity programs. Western Union Foundation is
now focus on giving financial aid/grant to customers who were badly hit
by the global meltdown, and to our valued customers who lost their
job/investment due to the present global meltdown. This is part of
our customer value added services and as through its agents World Wide
, Western Union foundation has today donated $53 million United States
Dollars World Wide,

Western Union company is a leader in global money transfer services,
Together with its affiliates,Western Union provides consumers with fast,
reliable and convenient ways to send and receive money around the world,
as well as assistance to send payments and purchase money orders. It
operates through a combined network of more than 365,000 Agent locations
in over 200 countries and territories.

Western Union Foundation gives customer the resources to aid their
financial state. Since 1997, Western Union Foundation has contributed to
improve the lives of thousands of customers world wide, and
organizations with noble causes, while creating awareness of some of
society's most serious problems, like our HIV/AIDS awareness
campaign,Western Union Foundation builds and implements public-private
partnerships to address the worlds most pressing problems that has been
caused by the present Global Economic Meltdow through advocacy and
public outreach with the aim of finding solution to this problems.

Western Union Foundation is a public organization and beneficiary are
selected without any criteria, You are required to contact the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) for documentation and processing of your
claims. After contacting our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with the
requested data,you will be given your donation pin number,which you
will use in collecting the funds.

Grant Numbers ( WUF/WUMT/00790 )

Note: Western Union will no be liable for double claims of your allocated
funds. any case of double claims will be disqualifed and your allocated
funds cannot be claimed by you as real beneficiary, you are therefore
adviced to keep this notification mail and grant numbers safe and
confidential. Western union has received so many cases of double, they
were all disqualifed from their allocated funds. This is why weare
advising you to keep this transaction safe and confidential.

Full Names:
Address in Full:
Telephone No:
Occupation:
Age:

To file Your claims Send listed requirements above to:
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Christina Gold

Sincerely
Western Union Foundation President **Luella Chavez D’Angelo**
and Chairman **David Schlapbach**

Western Union Foundation 2009
All Rights Reserved

Western Union Foundation

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