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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. Anna W. Dodd" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <moneygram2019@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:16:39 +0100
Subject: MTCN Number: 62272243!!!!!!

Attn: Dear,
 
Kindly be informed that we have sent your first daily payment of $13,642.00 to you today as instructed by the International Monitory Fund Agency.
However, the payment has been placed on hold because an attorney from our country by name Williams Anderson, contacted us saying he is your attorney and that you are on sick bed upon which you ordered him to contact us and remit the first payment mentioned above, out of the total sum $6.5Million US dollars into his own personal Bank Account but when the Bank Debit Note was submitted to my desk, I noticed that there are discrepancies, as there was no evidence of any authorization letter from you for the attorney to receive the fund on your behalf.
 
I hereby urged you to email me immediately  for your comments which will be highly appreciated for easy and fast confirmation over the following:
If you are still alive, on a sick bed and general health level or not at all?, your immediate response is highly needed .
Follow the below instructions to view and track your first daily payment on-hold::
1) Direct Access Login: https://secure.moneygram.com/track
2) Senders Name:  Shabangu
3) MTCN Number: 62272243
4) Amount: $13,642.00 USD.
 
Furthermore, you are required to provide a mandatory transfer re-activation token fee of  $250 only which you will send to |Eco BANK |Account Department| through the below given information, to enable us proceed with the transfer of your funds based on scheduled payments of $13,642.00 daily until the total sum of $6.5Million is completely transferred to you, because the attorney has already paid the fee in his name and we will not hesitate to continue the payment transfer activation with the name of the attorney on claim, if you don't act fast.
Go to the nearest Money gram office close to you and use the below details to offset your re-activation fee and start receiving your money.
 
Receiver’s Name:   James Cannon
City:   Porto-novo
Country:   Benin
Question:   When
Answer:   Today
Amount:   $250 only.
 
I’m waiting for your urgent response.
 
Best Regards,
Mrs. Anna W. Dodd
E-mail: moneygram2019@gmail.com
Transaction Operation Manager,
'TOM'Portnv-Benin Republic,

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