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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: "Mondu laahi" <remit2015@qq.com>
Reply-To: unbremit2015@qq.com
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 04:21:41 -0800 (CST)
Subject: Your Important Message




WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
Asian Money Transfer Department
333 Silom Road, Bangrak,Bangkok 10500 Thailand.

WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER DETAILS

This is from the Western Union Money Transfer office of Asia Release
Department Thailand. Be inform that western union is giving out funds to
farmers to yield more food for your country, for education, for business
to produce goods and to serve goods to the nation, to foundations to care
for the less privileged ones. This program is called "operation build the
nation" in support of THE UNITED NATIONS (UN), INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
FUNDS (IMF) AND THE WORLD BANKS on Earthquake Relief.

We received Payment notification from the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS
to transfer One Million Four Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars $1,400,000 to
you. I have today sent western union money transfer to you following
the instructions received from the IMF COMMITTEE.

MR. SUNG FRANK working with our embassy in India (THAILAND HIGH
COMMISSION) and also to your name. We have informed Mr. Sung Frank to
authorize the pick-up of $1,400,000 to your name and he has promised to
do immediately he receive your full details.

MR. SUNG FRANK WHO IS A WESTERN UNION AGENT TO THAILAND HIGH
COMMISSION is the agent that do help the Thailand Embassy to receive
Big sum of money, he is the only personnel that can help you order the
western union pickup in India. contact MR SUNG FRANK WITH A SCAN COPY
OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION ROOF FOR HIM TO ORDER THE WESTERN UNION CONTROL
NUMBER TO YOUR NAME FOR YOU TO PICKUP.

WARNING: LET IT BE KNOWN TO YOU THAT THESE TRANSACTIONS ARE BASED ON
DIGITAL CODES AND COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS, IT IS THEREFORE NSAFE TO
REVEAL YOUR DETAILS TO SOMEONE ELSE, E.G WESTERN UNION "MONEY TRANSFER
CONTROL NUMBER (MTCN)". WE THEREFORE ADVICE THAT YOU KEEP THIS PROCESS
VERY CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL THIS PROCESS IN COMPLETED. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT
TO PROTECT YOU AGAINST HACKERS AND SPIES.

You are to provide the following details for Mr Sung Frank to make the
Western Union Money Transfer to your full details:

YOUR FULL NAME: ******************************
ADDRESS: ************************************
TELEPHONE NO: *******************************
DATE OF BIRTH: *******************************
OCCUPATION: *********************************
MARITAL STATUS: ******************************
YOUR GENDER: ********************************

We received Payment notification from the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS to
transfer One Million Four Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars $1,400,000 to you.
I have today sent western union money transfer to you following the
instructions that received from the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS/UNITED
NATIONS COMMITTEE after our meeting today.

Earthquakes that happened in India, Nepal and with some countries around
the region that has killed over 4,200,000 people and left so many with
terrible injuries and renders Thousands of individuals homeless. The 7/89
Magnitude Earthquake happened on Saturday 25th April 2015 and on the 26
April 2015. It has been confirmed that the Earthquake will continue in the
happening regions. Open the website link for your view, read. Please do
not forget to make contact for urgent payment. :
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/26/asia/nepal-earthquake/

The international Monetary Agency has remitted an undisclosed sum to the
affected countries for an emergency foundation relief funds to the
affected countries. The international monetary agency board of committee
have instructed an emergency western union terminal in India to allocate
all the beneficiaries each prize urgently through Western Union Transfer
payment scheme because western union is the fastest means to send funds
across the global Forex exchange track.

The IMF has open western union terminal for quick receiving of funds so
that you can also donate to this countries from the payment you will
receive, We have ordered MR. SUNG FRANK working with the UNBANK in India
to authorize the pick-up of $1,400,000 to your name and he has promised
to do so immediately he receive your full details.

There are more details to this transaction, however as soon as you
send MR. Sung Frank your detail along with your identification proof,
you will receive the rest information that are necessary to collect
your cash
in any western union office near you.

Note that you have to make every transaction fast as any funds not
received and liable to be returned to sender by Western Union Money
Transfer Authorities as unclaimed funds.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Mondu laahi
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER OFFICER

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