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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: "Dr. Anita Scott" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info.exp205@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:11:52 +0100
Subject: Western Union Payment

Dear Customer
This is from western union Head office here in Benin Du
Republic. We presently ready to send your first payment of $5000 this morning from our office out of your $1,500,000.00USD assigned to us by the United Nation to transfer to you as your compensation fund, so you are requested to contact us now with full information where you want your first payment to be transfer to you without any further Daley, and for the transfer charge will cost you only $155 so that your first payment can be release to you as soon as you send the fee.
 
(1)Your full name,
(2)Your country,
(3)Your city/address,
(5) Your phone number,
 
The payment will be made twice daily to fulfill the western union daily transfer limit, and it will go in two packages, which means $5000 first and be followed with another $5000. Once you pick up the first payment, we will transfer the second $5000, because our daily transfer limit is $10,000USD. This is the procedure we will observe daily, until we transfer the whole US$1.5Million.
Therefore you are advised to contact the assigned department with the following information and contact person.
Phone. 229 98 11 6030
Email(westernun901@gmail.com )
Contact person: Kennedy S. Kovouy.
 
Best Regards
Dr. Anita Scott
Western union Head office BENIN Du REPU
 

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