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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 <mrs.sandra_synder@rediffmail.com>
Reply-To: infowesternagent2012@yahoo.in
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:30:24 +0800 (CST)
Subject:


  

 


Welcome to Western Union®
Send
Money Worldwide
www.westernunion.com
Tel/
+229-98977544

 

Attention: E-mail Address
Owner

 

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 twice daily until the
total sum of $2,5m is completely transferred to you. We can not be able to send
the payment with your email address alone, thereby we need your information as
to where we will be sending the funds, such as;

Receiver's
name:.....
Address:..............
Id
copy...............
Country:.............
Phone
number:................

Contact our Customer Care at
(infowesternagent2012@yahoo.in)
with your full information.


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. For urgent inquiry, call
+229-98977544

Thanks,
Mr. Tony Frank
Director
Western Union® Money Transfer,
Head Office Benin
Republic.

CONFIDENTIAL
NOTICE

 

This
email is intended for the owner of this E-mail Address only and contains
privileged and confidential information. If you received this email by error,
please delete it from your mail box and notify us immediately for correction.
The disclosure of this email to a third party is highly prohibited. Thanks for
your understanding.









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