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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: "PAY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.jonbasil@yahoo.gr>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:08:19 -0700
Subject: GOOD NEWS!!!

ATTENTION BENEFICIARY,
OUR EMAIL: wtnpacenter@gmail.com
Contact Person Rev. John Mike
Tele: +234-8188545616

Good news,

We have concluded to effect your payment via Western Union Money Transfer,$5000.USD daily until the total sum of $835,000 which we were mandated by the IMF to transfer to you is completely transferred.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the SCAM VICTIMS and your email was found as one of the VICTIMS.

And the first payment was made today in your name, so visit our website on www.westernunion.com track it right now or you can go to western union of your branch to track it and this is the payment info.

MTCN:===========#386-8705-878
Sender's First name:======Randall
Sender's Last name: =========Miller
Amount: ===========$5,500.000usd.



And you need to send your transfer charge before you can be able to pick it up in your name and the transfer charge is only $105 so pay your transfer charge now and get back to us with full info which is mtcn and sender name with bellow info.


1.RECEIVER NAME:===Richard Ike
Address: ………….
City: ………….Nigeria
Question: ………Time?
Answer: ……………Now
AMOUNT:=====USD$105 .00
MTCN======
SENDER'S NAME SHOULD BE YOUR NAME====?

Thanks,
>From Western Union
Customer Care Autorise by Ismael Udumaga.

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