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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 guarantee <officfile18@gmail.com>
Reply-To: w.u.ofguarantee@live.fr
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:04:17 +0100 (BST)
Subject: WESTERN UNION LETTER OF GUARANTEE TO THESE FUNDS OWNER.


WESTERN UNION LETTER OF GURANTEE TO THESE FUNDS OWNER.
Office Email ° ( w.u.ofguarantee@live.fr )
Contact Person° Mr.Daniel Tevez.

The legal department on behalf of the entire company , western union money transfer , do hereby write to gurantee your interest on receiving your funds here that your woths prize money of $1.6million must be remitted into your bank account after we receive from the mandatory legal cost of the transfer fees or will be transferring here in this western union per a day $5000.00 usd for the notorization of your wining file in the high court of justice.

And bear in mind that our transfer fee to able you receive pera day is $65 which you must get ready once you receive this letter to avoid any more delay on this transaction and start transfer your western union payment every day per the instruction from the high court of justice.

Here is the informations to make the payment through western union money transfer below:

RECEIVE NAME___MR. PROSPER O MAKOLU
NO:171 AKIL ROAD COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC
TEXT QUESTION::::::;; Almight
ANSWER::::::::::::: God
Amount:::::::::::::::$65
MTCN:::::::::::::::


This will enable this department file for the naturalization of your wining and obtain neccesary approval that will enable your funds to be transferres to you per a day and in the case of default in payment of your wining sut, the fees shall be your subject in return.


The claims file shall be processed accordingly , and send to the designated pay out bank for transfer of your won sum of $1.6million usd it is further guaranteed that we shall handly with respect and confidentiallity entire information at our disposal .

The management hereby confirms that this letter of guarantee is prepared under the right state of mind. we are also aware and conscious of the legal implication against the western union money transfer if we fail to abide by the contents therein.



Contact him with the below email address;
Person in-charge Mr . Daniel Tevez.
Tel :+229-66-995-057
Email:(w.u.ofguarantee@live.fr)
Regards
Mr. Daniel Tevez.


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