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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: Lauren Fishar <www.@lion.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Lauren Fishar <westernunionpayout@web.co.zw>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:35:56 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re: GREETINGS!! PLEASE CONTACT MR.LEO IYI FOR YOUR COMPENSATION!!!

This is Mrs. Lauren Fishar attorney & counsels at law Federal High Court of Justice Benin Rep. Address: plot 102 jbse island avenue kparakou, Cotonou Benin Rep. Note that we have decided to pay you your Compensation through western union urgent remitting office since you ware unable to receive your money through a courier company, bank to bank wire transfer and ATM visa card due to their managements but now we have sent your full compensation payment of $9,5 million united state dollars to you through Western Union Transfer Office known as (MONEY IN A MINUTE).

You will be receiving 4,500usd every 4hours a day, in the main time until after this month of October but you can only pick these payments from different Western Union and not a particular store/branch, I want you to contact the management in western union right now and ask him for your first payment. His name is ( Mr. Leo Iyi) and ask him to give you the (MTCN) payment information so that you can be able to pick up your funds through western union immediately.

Ecobank Western Union transfer Department.
PO Box 6992 Greenwood Village, CO 80145-6992
Cotonou Benin Republic,
Contact Person: Mr. Leo Iyi
Tel phone number: +229 9929 5130
Email address ( westernunionpayout@web.co.zw )

And contact him with your full information unfailingly.

Your name...............
Country...............
Phone no...............
Address/city..............
Age/sex............

Call or email him now so that he can provide the Western Union information to you as urgent as you can. Also do let me know immediately they have started sending your money, and try to comply with them to enable them serve you better.

Thanks,
We wish you good luck
Best regards,
Mrs. Lauren Fishar.
laurenfisha@gmail.com

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