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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: "Mr. Richard Maxwell" <"www."@proof.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Richard Maxwell" <atmworldwild01@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 08:37:19 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION

ATTENTION


The International Monetary Fund Annual Compensation from USA.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating some scam victims and your email address was found in the scam victims list. This MoneyGram®office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer your compensation to you via MoneyGram®Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through MoneyGram®Money Transfer, $4,199.00 pay day until the total sum of $1.3 Million United States is completely transferred to you the receiver. We cannot be able to send the payment with your email address alone, we are hereby needed your information to where we will be sending the funds.


Here is the information to pick up your first payment of $4,199 through MoneyGram store close to you.
Money Reference Number (REF):17369582
Sender's First Name: Elliott
Sender's Last Name: Mazer
MTCN:#17369582 (Track the MTCN by visiting::::::::: https://secure.moneygram.com/track)

You Can Text or Call once you fill below Informati


(Receivers name)............
(Country).......................
(Address)................................
(Phone Number).....................
(Your Age)..................................
(ID copy)............. ..................

NOTE: That your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72hours if we
did not hear from you because this was the instruction given to us by the IMF
office here in USA. We will start the transfer as soon as we received
your information. You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this
message for any reason what so ever because the US FBI is already on trace of
the criminals from Africa.

NOTICE: To text or call this office for any question.

Sincerely,
Name: Mr. Richard Maxwell

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