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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: "JEAN BAKARI" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <WesternHeadBranch@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 19:17:51 -0700
Subject: GOOD NEWS.

WESTERN UNION HEAD OFFICE BENIN
LA POSTE Post Office 65443
Telecommunicat Quartier Cadjehoun Cotonou 876.
Telephone + 22962806838

Attention fund owner,
We have deposited the Cheque of your compensation funds ( $950,000 USD ) from
Western Union department after our final meeting last week with the
federal ministry of finance and the federal high court regarding your
compensation funds, we all agreed that your Cheque will be deposit in the
United Bank For Africa for a safe keeping. Ministry of finance have paid
the International Funds Transfer Permit fee for you and the federal
government have release your compensation funds so at the moment The bank have
already Deposited all your compensation funds into an ATM VISA CARD and
hand it over to the Dhl office to post it to you over there in your
country to enable you to be withdrawing your money 10,000 dollars each
transaction with your ATM VISA CARD. Your ATM VISA CARD
worth of ( $950,000 USD ) has been deposited with Dhl Company to ship it
to your home address Now contact Dhl manager Mr Ghazi noura at (
onyekaogbonnaogbonna@yahoo.com ) Telephone +229 695 207 80 & Send him your Info such as
Your Name____
Address_____
Country____
Postal Code-----
Telephone Number____.

Good luck
and best regards
Mrs JEAN BAKARI
Western Union
Head Branch Manager.

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