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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. Dennis West" <"www."@carol.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Dennis West" <westernnunion2189@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 03:11:25 +0900 (JST)
Subject: GOOD DAY

I am Mr. Dennis West by name ,I am writing to you due to Our Formal Manager was pasted away last week I was appointed as a New Manager in this Money Gram office and I went through your our office payment files and find out that you have a fund sum of $1,500,000.00 here in our custody .I later observed that you need to comply with activation/transfer fee sum of $250 in order to starts receive your payment. I am writing to inform you that I have sum amount of money at hand to assist you to complete your transaction here in our custody. but the amount is not yet completed at my hand and secondly you have to assure me that after I assisted you on this transaction as soon as you receive your first installation payment that you will refund my money back to me. The reason why I want to assist you out of this transaction is because if this fund last for more than a month
in our custody, it will transferred into Government treasure due to over delays. your urgent responds is needed once you received this message, so that we shall starts processing your transfer with sum of $5000.00 each MTCN and you will be allow to received three payments per day which is $15,000.00 you.

Am looking forward to hear from you as the funds beneficiary.Therefore re-confirm your current address to our office…

Therefore, I need your urgent respond today so that we will finalize the transfer of your $7000.00,Thanks and God bless as am looking forward to hear from you as the funds beneficiary,remember that you will only receive one payment a day until your total sum of $1,500.000,00 {One Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars} is transfer to you completely.Here is the contact email{westernnunion2189@gmail.com} or you can call (+202) 688-8683) and thanks for your patronage.

YOURS SINCERELY,

Thanks and God bless,
Mr. Dennis West.
Foreign Operation Manager.

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