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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: "BARRISTER.DON PHILIP" <officefil.o160@aol.fr>
Reply-To: donphilip011@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 16:33:59 +0530
Subject: CONTACT WESTERN UNION URGENT


- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. -

Attention:The Owner of this E-mail id,
Western Union Head Office wish to inform you that United Nation Charitable Foundation secretly give $1.500,000,00 USD to randomly selected individuals worldwide.$5,000 has already been sent to you as first collection of which you will be receiving per hour until the total amount is completely transfer to you,
This is the final notice you are going to receive from this office,do you get me? I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to you.
Sender Information?s are stated:
HERE IS THE Available MTCN for pick up,
Sender name===========Michael Smith
Test question======== what colour?
Test answer:==========blue
Amount======== == = $5,000 00
MTCN===========414854****
Traking via
www.westernunion.com
Forward your below information to perfect the transfer under your name,
Your receiver's full name...........
mobile #...........
Home telephone number #..............
Address...............
You need to send the activation fee,before then you will see the complete 10 Digit number to pick up the needed $5000,Which have been sent to you today. So please act fast by sending the $105 with the information below for the pick up of your $5000 without delay.
Important note there is one man call Mr James Adam who claim to be your representative who came in our office say that you send him to pay the fee on your be half as the next of kin to claim the fund are you aware of this man ???
Contact Agent:Mr.Fred Roland
Reply To This Email: (
o.westernunion@yahoo.fr
)
Tel: +91-7838355947
HERE IS THE WESTERN UNION INDIAN AGENT INFORMATION TO SEND THE MONEY
RECEIVER'S NAME:.........MARK OLISE
COUNTRY:.....................INDIA
CITY:.............................NEW DELHI
AMOUNT:.....................$105
As result of the information we got I told them to wait until I hear from you today to know if you are still interested to receive this fund lets release your full MTCN of your $5000 installment once we confirm the activation fee as soon as you receive this message. So if you are interested on your fund, Send the payment slip activation fee of $105 upon your response.
Call Mr.Fred Roland on phone Tel:+91-7838355947 as soon as you send email to him because your call would facilitate the immediate attention to you due to his tight transaction schedule,
Information Agent
Barrister Don Philip


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