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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: "Mr. Hope Alive" <mrhopealive538@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mr. Hope Alive" <moneygramtransferunit@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:55:23 +0900 (JST)
Subject: YOUR GENUINE PAYMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED


Attention Dear

We acknowledge the receipt of your email in regard to your fund $6.400, 000.00 deposited here by the international monetary fund IMF to be transferred to you, for security reasons and to safe guard of your fund, It might interest you to know that we have taken out time in screening through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and have finally confirmed that your payment is 100% genuine and hitch free from all facet and of which you have the lawful right to claim your fund without any further delay.

Please note that the above transaction has not been authorized to pick up, the reason why you cannot pick up the $7,500.00 right now is because the service fee has not been send to us which is the only fee that is putting your fund on hold, on which without the service fee your fund cannot be authorized to pick up, so in your best interest, i hereby advised you to send the services fee so that you can be able to pick up your payment at any western union agent location in your state.

Service fee covers the cost of services rendered when administering & maintaining a third-party transaction to a beneficiary that is not living within the country which the fund is being deposited; service fee is usually one percent of the deposited fund and it is under normal conditions to paid by the beneficiary of a third-party transaction.

The applicable registration and transfer fees have been paid by the depositor, the reason why the service fee cannot be deducted from your fund is because your fund has been insured by the depositor, this is in accordance with section 13 of the national monetary act as adopted in 1999 and amended on 3rd july 2004 by the constitutional assembly. this is to protect beneficiary and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

So you have to send the service fee of $76 .00usd to the payment information stated below to enable us authorize your fund to pick up.

Receiver's name: Hope Alive
City: Nikki
Country: Benin
Question: Red
Answer: Blue
Amount: $76.00
Sender's name:
Sender's address:
Money transfer control number MTCN Reference number

The service fee should be sent to us within five working days, failure to meet up with this will lead to automatic transaction cancellation, send the following details via e-mail to this office for prompt  clearance.

Regards,
Mr. Hope Alive
Officer incharge

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