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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: =?utf-8?B?T0xJVkVSIEZSTEnG?= <oliver.frlic@studentski-celje.si>
Reply-To: western.union2014@live.com
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 19:50:33 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: OFFICE OF THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER. NIGERIA




welcome to western union money transfer
from office of the western union money
transfer Lagos republic of Nigeria 455 agbokou,
ankpa road opposite tunde motors Lagos.

payment instructions of usd($10.500.000.00certificate funds;

hello beneficiary,

good day, and how are you today? please blame us not you
may think that we forget to transfer your
funds no but verificication to know whether you are not
real beneficiary that is why we no mailing
you since but now we thank God because we find out that
the sum of ($10.500.000.00.}was yours and every
arrange was made normal,
your where given a bill of sum $450 in order to receive
your payment of which we didn’t hear from
you for sometime now. hence, our (western union office}is
now offering a special bonus to help all
our customers that are abandoned their payment in our
custody because of their financial difficulties
over there.

in order words we now requesting that those involve should
pay only the sum of $75.00 to receive all
their payment abandoned in our custody and return the
balance sum of $375. upon receipt since you find
it difficult to raise all the required sum.

besides, my dear, this is the opportunity for you to
comply and your funds shall be transfer to your
destination address. also note that after (3 days}if you
didn’t make the payment of $75.00 then we divert
your funds to government account to avoid any problem or
we will cancel your payment file.

so be advise to send $75.00. immediately if you still
willing to claim your payment so that we will register
your payment once we receive the transfer charges because
you will start receiving your payment as from
tomorrow morning.

send the fee through Western Union Transfer with the
information below.

1. Receiver Name............Peter m chukwuma
2. City/Country.............Lagos-Republic Nigeria
3. Question..............How Long
4. Answer............Tomorrow
5. Amount............US75. .00

FORWARD THE PAYMENT MTCN# TO THIS EMAIL
western.union2014@live.com

I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK.
YOURS IN SERVICE

DR PAUL BOMEN,
WESTERN UNION HEAD OFFICE DEPARTMENT
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.FOREIGN CONTRACTOR PAYMENT
OFFICE THIS IS OUR CONDUCT CODE 101.

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