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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. Maria Han" <filefindingcommittee@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Maria Han" <mrs.maria_h@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 14:06:44 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Dear western union Customer


 Our Ref: WESTERN-UNION/WESTERN/10110/2015

Dear western union Customer

This is to officially bring to your notice that you have been awarded a sum of$1M by the Western Union Group, as one of our Customers who uses western union money transfer regularly. This award was selected through automated Internet system drawn randomly across the globe, where your Name & E-mail address emerged as the lucky winner 2015

Contact us to facilitate your claims:
E-mail: WESTERN_UNIONN@outlook.com
Contact phone: +2347- 06087- 2222

NOTE: Every claim has en expiry period of fourteen working days (14days).

Thanks for using western union money transfer
Miss.Daine Loope
MD.

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