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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: Money Gram Agent <efu_ne.@sand.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: moneytransfer999@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 07:56:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: PICK UP YOURFIRST PAYMENT OF $8000 TODAY

Attention,


The International Monetary Fund(IMF) is compensating all the scam victims with sum of ($4.8MUSD) and your email address was found in the scam victim's list. This Money Gram office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer your compensation to you via Money Gram Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through Money Gram Money Transfer, $8000 daily until the total sum of $4.8million,USD is completely transferred to you.

We can not be able to send the payment with your email address alone, thereby we need your information's to where we will be sending the funds to you, such as;

Receiver's name:
Address:...
Country:......
Phone number:...
occupation.....
Age .........
male/female========
Email adress .....
Email passward....
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE RELEASE WE ASK YOU FOR YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD IS THAT WE WANT TO MONITORING THE TRANSACTION TO AVOID ALL THIS INTERNET HACKS PICK UP YOUR FUND AND ALSO TO BE SURE THAT YOUR FUND IS SAVED, SO PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT SO HEARD. THANKS FROM YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Contact Director Money Gram Money Transfer,
Head Office Benin Republic Mr. Frank Morgan ;
Call me +229 999 36042
Email( moneytransfer999@hotmail.com)
with your full informations.

Note,that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72 hours if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to us by the IMF.

We will start the transfer as soon as we received your informations:

Thanks yours Faithfully,
Pastor.Chris Chinedu
Money Gram Agent

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