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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: "Dear owner of this email address ...$" <test@nast.gov.cn>
Reply-To: <willamdolli@outlook.fr>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 08:58:21 +0000
Subject: Dear owner of this email address ...$

Dear owner of this email address

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online 2015/2017 organized by Africa Finance Gold & Diamond Internationals Corporation, in conjunction with the United Nations Foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.S.P) held this 2017,in the Microsoft Head Quarters London United Kingdom, where your email address emerged as one of the online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of (USD $ 7.500,000 million) seven million five hundred thousand united state dollars your fund was deposited to reserve agency money gram Burkina Faso west Africa


Here is your first payment information of $6,000 But before you can be able to pick it up through Money Gram Transfer System you have to send us $195 for activation of your payment file here in our office before you can pick it up, right now the MTCN is still available by the ministry of finance, while I send this information is for you to be sure that your first payment $6,000 is ready for you now, therefore immediately you confirm this information through your e-mail move to any available Money Gram Transfer System around you and send the fee needed, and once you send the $195 you will wait for one hour in other for you to have your first payment SENDERS NAME of $6,000 and ready for your second payment information.

(MTCN) 69231415
Sender First Name: ojadi
Receiver's Name: ,
Amount: $6000.00

MTCN number is: 69231415 Available for pick up by receiver You may track it through our website:

https://secure.moneygram.com/track


Enter the (REFERENCE) number # 69231415 Enter sender last name. ojadi and click tracking and it will show you that your funds is available for you to pick up.

https://secure.moneygram.com/track to confirm if the payment is still there.This money's ready for pick up at an agent location. As soon as you send the $195 fee, this (USD $ 7.500,000 million) will be released for you immediate to pick it up. You can track and see that the status is available for you to pick up but after the transfer permit is secured to back the funds transfer. You are to send $195 cost to procure the transfer permit to the following information;

MONEY GRAM PAYMENT INFORMATION:

Receive Name; ATAKPAME ADJO
City; Ouagadougou
Country; Burkina Faso
Amount; $195
Zip Code: 00226
Question; Now
Answer; Yes

Your advice to forward you current information to avoid any mistake during transferring the fund to you

(1). Full Name:
(2). Address:
(3). Nationality/Gender:
(4). Age:
(5). Occupation:
(6). mobile Phone number:
(7). Country:
(8) Your personal identification ID CARD or intentional passport

Note: immediately we confirm your service fees $195 usd then we must start transferring $6,000 USD to you per daily through money gram till your total funds of (USD $ 7.500,000 million) seven million five hundred thousand united state dollars is completely transferred to you

Immediately you’re made the payment send/forward a copy of the payment receipt/information to this email address Email address (moneybf@usa.com) for confirmation and start transferring your fund instantly/once
Yours respectfully,

Mr. Donald Tang
From Agency Money Gram Office BF

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