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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: Funds <unionhwestern7@gmail.com>
Reply-To: homelandseecurity@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 02:57:42 -0700
Subject: Attention Beneficiary

Attention: i hope this mail finds you in good spirit and in good
health? Because i am quite aware of your losses in the past years now,
it may surprise you that i am also aware of your consignment boxes
pursuit in Benin Ghana Togo Nigeria Spain France Malaysia Indonesia
china and Korea .my name is Mrs. Janet Napolitano, the secretary of
u.s department of homeland security of America, am in charge to
monitored all foreign transactions in Africa Europe and Asia.

I have been in the u.s department of homeland security now since the
government of President Donald trump, monitoring the various
transactions going on in Africa, Europe and Asia, most especially
consignments cases and bank transfer. I do not intend to spoil your
day or to put you under duress.

But you cannot receive any of your consignments boxes pursuit, without
a clearance from the u.s department of homeland security. However,
upon my arrival in Senegal after series of meetings with our president
Donald trump and united nations secretary general ban ki-moon, due to
numerous complaints from other security agencies from Africa Asia,
Europe, Oceania, Antarctica, south America and the united states of
America respectively, against the Senegal government and Nigeria over
the rate of scam/fraudulent activities going on in this country and
Africa.

When i arrive in the Senegal parliament in Dakar, i found your
consignment box clearance file lying on the foreign affair office desk
without any attention on a thorough scrutiny i discovered that your
consignment have been abandoned by your delivery agent. Meanwhile, i
was made to understand that they have try to reach you, but no way and
they have made several attempts to contact your delivery agent but to
no avail.

To my greatest surprise, during my recent routine re-checking, i
personally discovered that your consignment content declaration
documents stated that your consignment contains personal effects
meanwhile; it contains United States dollar bills worth over us$40
million dollars, which made it impossible for the consignment to be
delivered to you earlier before now.

Based on this personal discovery, i am contacting you now to let you
know that with my position and power as the secretary of u.s
department of homeland security, i can assist you to legally clear
your consignment fund, but you must agree with the following
conditions. Because i have called our office in washington,dc from
Senegal, who has been intercepting all your telephone calls, with the
help of mtn, tigo Vodafone and airtel network Senegal.

I also received some information from our homeland security office in
Senegal, about your emails, that you have been dealing and sending
money to peoples in Benin Ghana South Africa Togo and Nigeria, who
claims to be the western union director. You are also dealing with a
bank, and other names which i am still waiting to be forwarded to me
from our office in washington,dc. Who have monitored all your dealings
with this hoodlum?

You are advice to hence fort stop further dealings with all the above
mentioned people, until we complete our investigation. Because you’re
dealing with them is termed as illegal transaction.

I wish to inform that we the homeland security is on lookout for all
the above mentioned name, mostly those who claims to be the director
of west African debt western union and money gram and property
recovery Senegal. All this mentioned people are impostor, and we
intend to apprehend them soon.

I want you to please stop communicating, and dealing with them until
we complete our investigation. I wish to notify you about the latest
development concerning your box of consignment that was handle over to
me after the meeting held between me and some of the top parliament
members of Senegal and the foreign affair minster in the senegal
capital headquarters Dakar, due to the delay for you not have received
your consignment box for long time now.

Accordingly, we have waived away all your consignment box clearance
fees and authorized the government of Senegal to allow me fly with
this your approved consignment box to you without any delay which they
have agreed. The only fee you will pay to confirm your consignment box
received in your possession is the weight fee of your consignment box
which is sum of $105.00 only.

In order words your box is with me now and i shall be coming to your
country as soon as i hear from you and i will be coming along with
your box of consignment, but remember that as the secretary of the
department of homeland security united states of America, i am a us
government security agent and i have the power to go through any
airport customs without inspecting what i carry along.

And as soon as i arrive in your state i will give you a phone call for
you to give me direction to your home address so that we can meet face
to face and hand over your box to you before proceeding back to the
states. So i want you to re-confirm to me the below information for
proper understanding by filling the attach homeland security
registration form okay.

Beneficiary name:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tel phone:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Occupation:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Country:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sex:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

As soon as i arrive i shall call you on your telephone number then
meet you in person and hand over your consignment box to you before i
return back to Washington dc.

I have taken this assignment upon myself because i understand that you
have really paid so much on the cost of delivery, but nothing was
received by you. So be advice to contact me immediately you get this
email now because everything has been done ok. This is directly from
our president Donald trump.

Once you send the money, try to notify me with the mtcn for easy pick
up and for immediate action on the delivery of your consignment box,
for you to receive your inherited funds without any further delay
again. Since you was unable to receive it since .send the fee via
western union money transfer.

MONEYGRAM PAYMENT INFORMATION

RECEIVERS NAME:. . ANDRAW MANASEH
COUNTRY:. . SENEGAL
CITY:. . . .DAKAR
AMOUNT:. . . .$105
REFERANCE:. . . . . . .
SENDER ' S NAME:.
SENDER ' S ADDRESS:. . .


As soon as you send the fee make sure you send me the payment
information. Once you send the money, try to notify me with the mtcn
for confirmation and for immediate action on the handling over of your
fund to you. Also you are to forward to us any mail that you have been
receiving from people for proper verification and investigation before
you deal with them okay.

I have a very limited time to stay here so i would like you to
urgently respond to this message with the payment, my dear, this is
the opportunity for you and have to comply and your box shall be
deliver to your designated address. But remember that after (5 days)
you did not make the payment then i will divert your funds to
government fund or Senegal government treasury. Please treat this as
matter of urgency.

Sincerely yours,
Email homelandseecurity@gmail.com
Ms Janet Napolitano

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