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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" <info@officemail.org>
Reply-To: email-moneygram@moneygram-dept.tk
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:35:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: CONTACT MONEYGRAM NOW FOR THE RELEASED OF YOUR COMPENSATION FUNDS

Attention Customer,
We the money gram agent remitting office have sent your full compensation
payment of 950.000.00usd through money gram, you will be receiving
10.000.00usd per day. Now we have sent the first payment to you.
So contact our director Dr. Sule Aboki and ask him to give you the money
gram payment information so that you can be able to pick up your funds
through money gram without any problem.
Here is the contact information of money gramThen contact him with your
full information to give you the reference number to collect your 10,000
usd. your name, country, phone number, address/city, age/sex call or email
him now so that he can provide the money gram information to you as urgent
as you can.
Director General: Dr. Sule Aboki
Email address:email-moneygram@moneygram-dept.tk
Thanks and god blessing you.
Barr. Festus Bakari


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