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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: "Mrs. Judith Amechi" <montoncino959@alice.it>
Reply-To: wnwun55@outlook.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:38:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject:

Hello Dear,

How are you and your family? This is Mrs. Judith Amechi from Western Union
Head
Office here in Benin Du Republic. We presently send your first
payment sum of
$5000 this morning from our office, so you are requested to send your full
name, country, city and personal phone number, and also call me @+229 68655931
so we can do the normal procedure on your first $5000 payment file here today
so you can pickup your money at any Western Union office around you. Thanks
and
call us now.

Best Regards
From, Mrs. Judith Amechi
Western Union Head office BENIN Du REPUBLIC
Direct number: +229 68655931
EMAIL:- { wnwun55@outlook.com }

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