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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: PASTOR CHRIS <officefile744@yahoo.cn>
Reply-To: customercare_benin@live.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:03:47 +0800 (CST)
Subject: PAYMENT ASSURED.






   
 









































ATTENTION DEAR VALUED
CUSTOMER,
WELCOME TO WESTERN UNION MONEY
TRANSFER WORLD
WIDE BENIN
REPUBLIC COTONOU OF
WEST AFRICAN FASTER WAY OF RECEIVING MONEY.












 ATTENTION,
SCAM VICTIM'S COMPENSATION FROM
THE IMF BENIN REPUBLIC:
The International Monetary Fund(IMF) is compensating
all the scam victims
and your email address was found in the scam victim's
list. This Western
Union® office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer
your compensation
to you via Western
Union® Money Transfer.
However, we have concluded to affect your own
payment through Western
Union® Money Transfer, $5,000 daily until the total
sum of $2.5million,USD
is completely transferred to you.
We can not be
able to send the payment with your email address alone,
thereby we need your
information to where we will be
sending the funds to
you, such as;
Receiver's
name:
Address:...
Country:......
Phone number:.....
Attached copy of
your Identification...
Age ......
Contact our Customer Care at Western
union;
Email( customercare_benin@live.com )
with your full information's.
Note that your payment
files will be returned to the IMF within 72 hours
if we did not hear from
you, this was the instruction given to us by the
IMF.
We will start the
transfer as soon as we received your information's:
Thanks yours Faithfully,
Pastor
Chris+229 99 34 72 99
Director Western Union® Money
Transfer,
Head Office Benin Republic.



















































 


OFFICE OF THE WESTERN UNION
MONEY TRANSFER. 
COTONOU
BENIN REPUBLIC/
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
COTONOU.



FROM
THE DESK OF PASTOR CHRIS 
THE DIRECTOR OF WESTERN UNION MONEY
TRANSFER WORLD WIDE BENIN REPUBLIC COTONOU OF WEST AFRICAN FASTER WAY OF
RECEIVING MONEY
 
.

   GENERAL MANAGER OF WESTERN UNION FOREIGN CONTRACTOR PAYMENT
OFFICE.

 
 

  
 
 

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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