419 scam: Wumt Bonus <louis.gowan@yahoo.ca> Western Union 2013 Special Bonus Offer for you

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "from the desk of" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "clearance fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "western union" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "tax clearance" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "i will advice you " (this email uses bad English)
- "tax clearance" (Tax offices mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. Even after you pay their fake tax demands you will still not receive the non-existent funds you have been promised. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22999653895 (Benin, probably a prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: Wumt Bonus <louis.gowan@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: Wumt Bonus <westernunion.paycenter@ymail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 03:51:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Western Union 2013 Special Bonus Offer for you

7740 Parkville Road,
Aso Rock Villa
Port novo Benin Republic.
From The Desk of the Manager
Mr. Eddy Michael
Positions: Manager/Head of Dept
Region Port novo Branch/ Benin Republic
Service Time: 24HOURS
Type: Financial Mgp
Code: 1744

To the owner of the email indicated in our office

First and fur most I am Mr. Eddy Michael the western union secretary, it is my pleasure to inform all the individual privacy email which their email appear in our 2013 Annual Promo that sum of $15,000.00 has been signed to each customer and note that our 2013 promo is not like of the previous years which we usual offer gift due to the number of the email appeared is much and it will hardly to us to attend all the customers as scheduled in our annual program file so we decided to offer this promo cash to all the Customers email list for security reason.

Furthermore all the email indicated in our file is going to receiver $15,000 so I will advice you as the real owner of the indicated email to urgently come up with the information where you will like your money to send such as

Your receiver name
Your country/city
Text question
Your answer
Your Telephone Number

Note, the reason for requesting for the above information is that there will be no way your fund will be sent to you without your identification card or passport to be presented before the Western union office were you will like to receive your fund and once again I will not forget to inform you that all the customers is going to pay for the tax clearance fee of $58 and this is the only fee each customer which is involve in this promo is going to afford, so I wish you could try to have this fee sent upon confirmation of this notification email so that you will be the first customer to receive your first payment and this payment is going to be 6 day transfer because we are to be sending $2,500 as the first transfer OK

This is account information to send us the tax clearance fee of $58
Name: John Dibor
Country: Benin Republic
City: Port novo
Text Question: Urgent
Text Answer: Transfer
Amount: $58

For more questions about this Offer call 00229-996-53-895

Sincerely
Mr. Eddy Michael

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