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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.Maureen" <macddouglas@gmail.com>
Reply-To: monegram1232@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:18:23 -0800
Subject: Hello My Dear,

Hello My Dear,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you. I am writing to inform
you that the reason why you did not receive your $3.5M USD for a while
is that we lost your contact and it was on Friday morning last week
that we found your payment form in our office and from there we got
your email address to reach you now.
After the last meeting held with the Federal Ministry of Finance
concerning this matter, The Finance Minister gave order to transfer
your fund through Money Gram money transfer $5000.00 2 times per day
that means you will be receiving $10,000.00 each day until your
payment is over.

Take note your payment file disk will be activate with your information
before you can be able to start receiving your payment.

reconfirm to him your information correctly
Your Full Name,
Your Country,
house or office Address
Your ID card
Your Occupation
your phone number

Now, the fund was handed over to the Money Gram Office this morning to
start transferring your fund immediately with immediate effect. Note
that you will be receiving $10,000.00 each day and first payment of
$5000.00 will come to you in the morning by 9:30 am while the last
payment of the day will come to
you at 5: pm in evening.
Below is

the information to contact Money Gram office and you are advised to
contact them immediately you receive this email and also reconfirm
your information to them to enable them to release the necessary
information for you to receive your fund without making any mistake on
it.
Contact Person
Mr. Godwin M.Johnson.
Email ( monegram1232@gmail.com)
phone number +22968944173

Regards Mrs.Maureen

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