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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 Fred Miller <"www."@onyx.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr Fred Miller" <fredm7219@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 18:32:52 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION MY DEAR BENEFICAIRY

FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER PAYMENT OFFICE
MONEY GRAM MONEY TRANSFER OFFICE
ADDRESS: 1823 W Main St, Louisville, OH 44641, United States
Hours: Open today · 9:00 am – 9:00 pm
OFFICE TEL: +1 587-205-5666 for Call and Text SMS..


ATTENTION MY DEAR BENEFICAIRY

The International Monetary Fund Annual Compensation from USA .
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the

2005/2017 scam victims and your email address was found in the

scam victims list. This Money Gram®office has been mandated by

the (IMF) to transfer your compensation to you via Money Gram®

Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to effect your own payment through

Money Gram®Money Transfer, $4,920.00 USD per Day until the

total sum of $3.8Million is completely transferred to you the

receiver.

We can not be able to send the payment with your email address

alone, we are here by needed your information to where we will

be sending the funds.

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

Note that your payment files will be returned to the IMF

within 72 hours if we did not hear from you because this was

the instruction given to us by the IMF office here in

Louisville Ohio 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,THANKS
Yours in Service,

Mr.FRED MILLER(fredm7219@gmail.com)
Remittance Manager,
International Customer Relation Officer

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