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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 <cunitedstate@gmail.com>
Reply-To: western_ub@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:37:10 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Re; First Payment Sent Call Dr Jerry King +22996059839





WELCOME TO ECOBANK PLC WESTERN UNION MONEY
TRANSFER BENIN
REP.


Attention,

I want to inform you that I spoke with the person in
charge of the transaction and she informed me that orders were passed down to
hold-on sending you payments as instructed because your file shows that you have
not paid the Bond Stamp
Duty Fee which is only US$97. As soon as we receive this
US$97. from you for the Bond Stamp Duty Fee, i will send your
 and there will be no problem at all with picking the
fund.

You can go
ahead and send the US$97. for the Bond Stamp Duty Fee today and get back to me
with the payment information through western union so that your fund will be
remmitted to you,

Send the money and let me know so
that we can send you the first US$5,000 at once. Note that without the required
certificate we will not be able to send the monies to you so go ahead and send
the fee for the certificate to enable this office update your file and start
sending your funds to you until your total fund in the amount of (
USD800,000.00) has been
sent to you.
 

https://wumt.westernunion.com/asp/orderStatus.asp?country=global
 
MTCN#: 5098080591
amount.$5,000
Sender’s first name:
Zoran
Sender's last name:
Penezic
Test Question: What
Colour
Answer: Blue
 
and this information to send to send our transfer
charages which is 97 dollars



Receiver's name:  Ude
Joseph
Country: Benin republic
City:
contonou
Text question: GOD IS
Answer: GOOD
Amount: $97
.00
Sender's name:


1.
Full Names……………………… 
2.
Contact Address………………
3.
Telephone Number……………  
4.
Fax Number……………………
5. Occupation……………………
6.
Country.....................................

Congratulations!! Once again.

Yours in service,
Ernie Shavers
Kindly fill details in the attachment above for your
payment claim and contact your agent immediately

WARNING!!
WARNING!!
Do not give
out your winning information’s or communicate about it, to avoid double claim ,
and In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that
was sent to you, kindly delete it and give no correspondence to such. To avoid
mix-appropriate of fund
 



Dr Jerry King
Senior Vice President, Benin & CIS
western union money transfer
®
CALL NOW +22996059839


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