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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: Linda Sielck <"WWWW."@sunny.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Linda Sielck <lindasielck3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 00:36:05 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Contact person: Linda Sielck

This is to acquaint you on the outcome of our meeting with Western Union Co (WU.N) and the Association of Better Business Bureau to compensate scam victims upon due verification, The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation, have successfully passed A mandate to the new president of the United State of America Donald John Trump, to boost the Exercise of clearing all foreign debts Owed to individuals and organizations due to the pass Government failed to pay your total fund worth sum of $950,000.00 USD Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars only.


Western Union (WU) allowed criminals to use its global money transfer service to carry out “hundreds of thousands” of scams, the company admitted in a federal settlement under which it will return $586 million to victims of the fraud. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that Western Union knows for “years” that scammers were using its services, but ignored the signs. That included more than 550,000 customer complaints the company received between January 2004 and August 2015. Scammers racked up billions in fraudulent transactions over that time period, the agency said.

In one scam, criminals would call a Western Union customer and direct them to wire money to claim a prize or to help a relative. Once the money was sent, it could not be recovered. Some Western Union agents went along with the scam for a cut of the profits. Visit our web page to confirm the legitimate of your compensation fund from Western Union Money Transfer, once you open our web page make sure you read the article very well to be so sure that your said fund is from genuine office. Noted your name are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount.

Click the link to confirm this Transaction: http://bit.ly/2sZtsJU

However, kindly contact the person below who is in position to release your compensation fund to you depends on how you choose to receive your compensation fund.

Contact person: Linda Sielck
E-mail contact: lindasielck3@gmail.com
TelePhone number to text Only: (331) 465-5847

In light of the above, a priority payment instruction has been dully issued to us to credit the mentioned amount to your personal account been your payment as soon as you contact with your personal information's Upon receipt of this mail.

FULL NAME............
ADDRESS..............
COUNTRY..........
OCCUPATION...........
AGE/SEX........
PHONE#.......
Indicate how you wish to receive your fund bank to bank wire transfer/ a
check.

We wait your immediate response with details as required and you are expected to respond to the above email as soon as possible to enable us start the process of your fund today. Please get back to us as soon as you receive this email to enable us complete your payment within 48Hrs as United Nation Org/ World Bank are monitoring us.

Regards,
Agent Brown

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