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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: MONEY GRAM ONLINE CASH <onyezemicheal@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jamesdouglas078@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:42:32 -0700
Subject: MONEY GRAM ONLINE CASH.

ATTN: Dear Beneficiary,

Please, We have last month of June 2014 received a payment credit
instruction from the federal Government and United Nation (UN) to
credit your account with your contract payment which is in the custody
of our Bank account here MONEY GRAM ONLINE CASH.
This is to notify you that your funds $10.7 MILLION (USD) has
been programmed for immediate release into your nominated
account but we can not transfer this funds directly to your nominated
bank account,
Because International Monetary Fund (IMF) didn't abide the plan by
transferring the whole payment at once, so we scheduled earlier to
pay you $8,000 on daily
basis through MONEY GRAM ONLINE CASH.

It became imperative to contact you on the subject matter because
after the fund has been brought to our office to remit. somebody from
your country by name Charles Porter contacted us and said you are on
sick bed and ordered him to contact us to remit the USD$10.7Million us
dollars using his information to pick up your fund presently under our
custody for transfer on your behalf. The Official responsible for the
presentation of your money valued USD$10.7 Million Winning quickly
granted approvals to their application now waiting for final
endorsement from Board of Trustees.

When our BANK Debit Note was submitted to my desk for final Approvals
before forwarding it to Board for endorsement, I noticed that there
are discrepancies as there was no evidence of authorization letter
from you for Charles Porter to receive the funds on your behalf. I
urgently summoned The Official responsible for the presentation of the
winning and directed him to stop the movement of the funds and at the
same time placed a stop order instruction on the funds pending when
your views and comments are received with regards to this matter.

I hereby urged you to email me urgently for your comments which will
be highly appreciated if you are still alive or not on sick bed with
sum of require activation fee of $200 which you will send before we
commence the transfer of your first payment $8,000.00usd immediately,
because we will not hesitate to continue the payment transfer
activation with the name of the gentleman on claim if no response come
from you. E-mail me back using this as your silence will be a clear
indication that you authorized him to effect the above changes.

Therefore, you are hereby advice to offset the required payment of
US$200 with our name and information below .to enable us transfer
your funds of $8,000 daily until the total sum of $10.7M is completely
transferred to you.

Receiver's Name:..... .PETER AGBATA
Country............. ........Benin Republic.
City............................Cotonou
Zip code...................00229
Text Question:..........Honest
Answer:.......... ........Trust
Amount...................$200
Sender's name.......
MTCN................

Moreover, this is your payment information and we will remit your
payment of $8,000 daily as soon we confirm the fee today.
Also fill the information below to help us facilitate your transfer
via MONEY GRAM ONLINE CASH
1) Your Full Name:.............
2) Country and Mobile:. .....
3) Direct Telephone Number.......
3) Home/ Office Address:..........
4) Profession and Age:.........

Am waiting for your urgent response.

Best Regards
Mr. James Douglas
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Benin Republic.

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