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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "wu.western.unio19@gmail.com" <wu.western.unio19@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:58:51 +0000
Subject: Congratulation!


You were selected as a winner of Western Union 2015 October Customers Award Program (Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) I personally advise that you use the funds wisely. However, we need your information as stated below to commence your transaction due process: 1.Receiver's Full Name: 2.Receiver's Address: 3. Receiver's Country: 4.Receiver's Telephone Number:5.Receiver's Occupation: With the requested data we can commence the facilitation of your funds transfer to you.

Regard’s
Mrs SheanYa Yeh
FOR
Western Union Money Transfer

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