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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: Mrs Clara Anita <"www."@diary.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Mrs Clara Anita <moneygramofficecenter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 06:26:37 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear valued customer,

Dear valued customer,
We have sent the $5.000.00 out of your total compensation sum of
$850.000.00 from money gram head office in USA. All we need
from you now is just your long time lost information such as your

1,Your Name--------
2,Your Country--------
3,Your Phone Number------
4,Your occupation--------
5,your home address-----
Here are the reference number of your first payment,
Reference number:36261991:,
Senders first name Ejimofor
Senders last name Ben
Amount:: ($5.000.00).
You can verify the reference number in any money gram office near you
or by tracking it on our website with this link,
(https://secure.moneygram.com/ track). Just fill the reference number

The status now shows Available for pick up by receiver because this
amount has been on the system for security reasons, since I did not
get any reply message from you after sending you several notices with
the transaction details to enable you pick up your Reference number
Now, you are strongly advised for the last time to go on today

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