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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.John Kenneth." <Kenneth@vodokanal.poltava.ua>
Reply-To: moneytansfe10@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:54:40 +0100
Subject: From Western Union Money Transfer,




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Attention: E-mail Address Owner

The Board of federal ministry of finance REPUBLIC Of Benin are hereby
notifying you SCAM VICTIM'S COMPENSATION FROM THE Ministry Of Finance
REPUBLIC Of Benin,The Ministry Of Finance is compensating all the scam
victims and your email address was found in the scam victim's list. This
Western Union office has been mandated by the Ministry of Finance to
transfer your compensation to you via Western Union Money Transfer.

However, we have concluded to affect your own payment through Western
Union Money Transfer, $5,000 twice daily until the total sum of $2,500.00
is completely transferred to you. We can not be able to send the payment
with your email address alone, thereby we need your information as to
where we will be sending the funds such as;

Receiver's name:.......... .
Address:..............
Country:..............
Phone number:................

Also western union demanded that we must pay $89USD for the remittance of
the check before the release of the pick up information of first $5000USD
to you.Contact our Customer Care at (moneytansfe10@gmail.com ) with your
full
information.

Note that your payment files will be returned to the Ministry Of Finance
within 24 hours if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction
given to us by the Ministry Of Finance.We will start the transfer as soon
as we received your information and confirmed from the western union that
you have paid the remittance of the check.Contact our Customer Care
at;(moneytansfe10@gmail.com ),

Thanks,
Mr.John Kenneth.

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