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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: "Mr. Ibrahim Lamodu" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infowesternunionmoneytransfer10@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:33:53 -0700
Subject: Attn: Beneficiaries

Western Union Payment
Welcome to Western Union
Send Money Worldwide
Mrs. Wentz Ray.

RE:WESTERN UNION REMITTANCE DEPT Our Ref: WU/RG/LA/04/08/JT/0122.

Dear,
There is an issue with the WESTERN UNION TRANSFER UNITED STATE OF AMERICA in the amount of $1.5 million USD directed in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03, at the owner of this email address. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) contacted us for the release of your money a couple of hours ago due to your allocated security code.

They said that they choose to send it to you through western union instead of Courier services because there's many fake Couriers company here so we don’t trust any of them. We are unable to complete a transfer directed at an email address, so we require some more information in order to complete this transfer the listed below are needed.

FULL NAME:
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:
MARITAL STATUS AND AGE:
CONTACT THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WITH THIS E-MAIL.
infowesternunionmoneytransfer10@yahoo.com
infowumt1010@gmail.com
Phone number +234-802-229-0371
Contact Person: Mrs. Wentz Ray

Note: That this is not one of those internet scams that all they are after is to ripe you off your money and at the end you will not receive your funds, but note that this is no scam and is directly from the Management of Western Union Money Transfer Nigeria Republic Head Office and our Motto is To SERVE YOU BETTER. We will be sending you $5,000 United State Dollars every day because transferring the total money to your nominated bank account will cost you big money for the transferring, that is why united nations give us order to be sending you $ 5,000 United State Dollars every day.

Contact us on our
E-mail: infofbi@ovi.com
Phone number: +234-801-3085-3401
Director Name: Mr. Malcolm Bennett

Also note that you would be receiving $ 5,000 for each transfer that's how we are going pay you your $1.5 million USD $ 5,000 United State Dollars per a transfer.

THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, NIGERIA HEAD OFFICE. DISPATCHED THIS DAY BEST REGARDS, Mrs. Wentz Ray. (303)

Welcome to Western Union Send Money Worldwide.
Federal Republic of Nigeria

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