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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: "INTERNATIONAL UNIT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <union_w@yahoo.cn>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:21:03 -0500
Subject: Advance Fee Fraud>>> STOP EVERY TRANSACTION NOW!!

This is to officially informed you that After proper investigations and research In Nigeria , Your name was among the 2010 scam Victims Database, this has proves that you have been swindled by those fraudlent 419 element In Nigeria precisly.in course of getting one fund or the other,right now we are working to track every fraudsters down, And to stop every fraudlent act In Nigeria precisly,




After the final resolution, a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The Federal Ministry Of Finance in Nigeria, and the international Reguratory,as a consequence of our investigations, it was agreed that the sum of tw0 hundred and eighty thousand Unitest state Dollars (US$280,000.00) should be transferred to you as a scam victims out of the funds that the Federal Government of Nigeria and the international Reguratory has set aside for the 2012 compensation fund to everyone who have by one way or the other sent money to fraudsters in Nigeria presisly. And other related Europians countries.


We have deposited your fund at Money Gram Swift Money transfer services today, but the maximum amount you will be receiving every day starting from tomorrow is $7,000.00 as reflected in transfer system daily until the funds is completely transferred to you,This special arrangement is being used to avoid all scrupulous demands by both the states and federal authorities that have previously delayed your payment till date; we shall need your maximum co-operation to ensure that strictness and confidence is maintained to avoid any further delays.

contact the Accredited MONEY GRAM Agent via ( union_w@yahoo.cn) for the details of your first payment of $7,000 United States Dollars and reconfirm
your correct details that you will like the first transfer to be program with such as Receivers Name, destination where you will like the transfer to be send to and your cell phone number for urgent communication if the need arise.

Fill your details below for reference purposes:

*NAME OF CUSTOMER: .........
*ADDRESS: ..........
*CITY: ..................
*COUNTRY: .................
*TEL: .....................
*AGE.......................
*OCCUPATION: .............


Remember your obligation to secure an International Remittance Form as stated in United Nation act of (FRT209) that will help build and renew your transfer file for record keeping as a way of checkmating the present Economics crisis situations.Contact the below Transfer unit of MONEY GRM for immediate programing of your first transfer

Name: Tonia Williams
Email: (union_w@yahoo.cn)



Regards,
Mrs.Gloria Simpson

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