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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: penette upshaw <"www."@rice.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: " penette upshaw" <peneupshaw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:02:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER PAYMENT OFFICE

FOREIGN OPERATION MANAGER PAYMENT OFFICE
MONEY GRAM MONEY TRANSFER OFFICE
ADDRESS: 2107 Beatties Ford Rd Ste1,Charlotte,North Carolina , United States
Hours: Open today · 9:00 am – 9:00 pm
OFFICE TEL: +1 614- 6695083 for Call and Text SMS..


Attention !!!

The International Monetary Fund Annual Compensation from USA .
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the 2016/2017 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 fund to you via Money Gram® Money Transfer.

How ever, we have concluded to effect the payment through Money Gram®Money Transfer, $4,920.00 USD per Day until the total sum of $1.8Million is completely transferred to you the receiver.

We can not be able to send the payment with your email address alone,Thats why we needed your information to where we will be sending the fund. You Can Text us or fill the below Informations.

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

Note that your payment files will be return 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 North Carolina USA. We will start the transfer as soon as we received your informations. You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message for any reason what so ever because the USA FBI is already traceing criminals from Africa.

THANKS,
Penette Upshaw
Foreign Operation Manager Payment Office
Money Gram Money Transfer Office
EMAIL:peneupshaw@gmail.com
Address:2107 Beatties Ford Rd Ste1,Charlotte,North Carolina , United States
Hours: Open today · 9:00 am – 9:00 pm
OFFICE TEL: +1 614-6695083 for Call and Text SMS

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