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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. Michelle Barack" <antoniosartini@alice.it>
Reply-To: mrsmichellebarack46@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:24:28 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From Mrs. Michelle Barack, LAST UPDATE

>From Mrs. Michelle Barack
The White House
(Official Residence of the President of the US)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500 USA

How are you today? This is last you will ever hear from me and you fail to
comply.

I am Mrs. Michelle Obama and I am written to inform you about your Bank Cheque
Draft brought by the United Embassy from the government of Benin Republic in
the white house Washington DC which contains the sum of $20.000.000 millions us
dollars credited from the bank of America, the delivery of your funds has been
mandated to be deliver to your address on Thursday, April 9, 2015 to you as
soon as you get back to me with your home address and your cell phone number.

Bear in mind that I have taking my time to be in charge of your funds as
instructed by my husband to ensure that you received your funds successfully
from the white house to reduce the economy and I’m the only one that has your
funds in regard to my husband Mr. Barack Hussein Obama II and you will have to
pay the sum of $69.00 only before your Bank Cheque Draft will deliver to you on
Friday, the reason why the fee is required is to have your funds clearance
paper from the origin of the funds to avoid any harassment from the authority
and you are also expecting to be announce as winner of the said amount by
Friday as soon as your fund is delivered to you.

So you are urgent advised to get back to me with your home address and also the
payment information today for immediate effect of your delivery. Note that the
$69 is the only fee and final payment you have my assurance.

However, according to our agreement with the originated Benin Republic, all our
communications should be on email for record purpose so follow my instruction
accordingly, even if you don’t have the $69 try to borrow it and send it
immediately today because this is your life opportunity and I don’t want you to
lose the chance any more.

Please I will advice you to urgent make the payment this morning via western
union or money gram money transfer to the listed cashier information as
instructed you by the originated authority. I will look forward to received
your email today with the payment to enable the origin secure the required
clearance papers required at White House Benin to deliver your funds. Note that
it will take only 14hrs to deliver your Bank Cheque Draft in receipt of the $69
payment.

Please find the payment data below to send the $69 via western union or money
gram.

Receiver Name: BUCHI OWEN
Address: Cotonou, Benin Republic
Question: Urgent
Answer: Needed
Amount: $69.00
MTCN reference number............
Sender Name...........
Sender's Telephone……
Sender's Address........

I look forward to your respond to your email with the payment today.

Regards
Mrs. Michelle Barack
The White House
(Official Residence of the President of the US)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500 USA

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