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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: "Agent Garry Moore" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <westernunionoffice2014@yandex.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:39:08 -0400
Subject: Your Total Fund to be received is US$360,000,00 via western union transfer

My associate has helped me to send your first payment of US$7,500 to you? as instructed by Mr. David Mark the Federal republic of Nigeria Senate president after the last G20 meeting that was held in United Kingdom,Making you one of the beneficiaries. Here is the information below to pick up your first payment.

MONEY TRANSFER CONTROL NUMBER: 310-487-3082
SENDER NAME: Jame w. Barry
AMOUNT: US$7,500usd
Test Question: Amount
Answer: $7,500usd

So Agent Garry Moore will be instruted to keep sending you US$7,500 twice a week until the FULL
payment of (US $360,000.00 Dollars) is completed.

A certificate will be made to change the Receiver Name as stated by the
British prime minister.

We recommend you track this MTCN in the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER website immediately to confirm the MTCN is active or not,But you should know that we have not gotten your release certificate from the UK G20 committee yet.

So the above is your case, we recommend you contact Agent Garry Moore to work with you in getting the certificate immediately so that your MTCN will be active and you can start collecting your money twice weekly via WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER until your total sum of $360,000,00 is totally completely sent to you.

You are advise to send your Full Names / address and direct phone number via Email to this of the following email address below:

Agent Garry Moore agentgarrymoore2013@yandex.com

Agent Garry Moore is experts from the sub-committee of the G20 committee meeting held in the UK. The money will not reflect until the clearance certificate is issue to you by the G20 committee.

Make sure you are replying with the above email when responding,Which is for security reason.

God bless you

Signed
Secretary
Agent Garry Moore
G20 Committee.

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