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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: "DR.JIMA SINGITA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <western.union44@xnmsn.cn>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:00:37 +0100
Subject: WESTERN UNION ENDING OF THE YEAR FROMO

THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER OFFICE BENIN BRANCH.FROM THE DESK OF WESTERN UNION REMMITANCE DEPT.
Our Ref:WUMT0XX2/987

Attention To The Owner Of This E-mail,

GOOD NEWS.

How are you today? I write to inform you that we have been authorized to be sending you $5,000.00 dollars on daily basis through Western union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment total sum of $2.5M via western union by this governemnt. The government of Benin Republic is compensating those from America/Asia and Europe, Etc.

citizens that have been scammed by africa scammers. Today when we tried to transfer the first $5,000.00 Dollars we could not, we found out that you have not given us your real names address and city where to transfer the money.

Now, I decided to email you to solicite for the information needed tostart transferring your money without any delay because time is not on our side.

You are to send below information to our online costumer care email address below:

1, Your full names:
2, Country name and address:
3, Your direct telephone number:

Once we receive the above information, we will be sending you only $5,000.00 per day. My direct phone line is +229-66 236 229 ,Western Union Manager DR.MARK JAMES, contact us via our costumer care Private Email Address with the above requested information:western.union44@xnmsn.cn email or call me once you send the requested information. Note, that the total sum have been programmed to our electronic wire transfer system for transfer once we hear from you.

I am waiting for your call once you send the information, Please email me your direct telephone number because I need to be calling you once we send any payment for the informations.

THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, BENIN HEAD OFFICE.
DISPATCHED THIS DAY.

BEST REGARDS
DR.JIMA SINGITA

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