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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. Tim Roll" <westernunion@empo.com.br>
Reply-To: westernunionbj@qq.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:00:05 -0300
Subject: YOUR SCAM VICTIM'S COMPENSATION OF $1.800.000 USA DOLLARS FROM THE
IMF BENIN.




Welcome to Western Union®
Send Money Worldwide
www.westernunion.com
Tel/ +229-99610754
E-mail/ westernunionbj@qq.com

Attention: Email ID Owner

RE: 2000 - 2015 SCAM VICTIM'S COMPENSATION FROM THE IMF BENIN.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is compensating all the scam victims
and your email address was found in the scam victim's list. This Western
Union office has been fully mandated by the IMF 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
$1.800.000 Million 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:................... (Your Full Name)
Address:......................Country:..................& Phone
number:...................

Reply back on (westernunionbj@qq.com) with your full information. Note
that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72 hours if we
did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to us by the IMF. We
will start the transfer as soon as we received your information.

Thanks,
Mr. Tim Roll
Director Western Union®
Tel; +229-99610754

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE

This email is intended for the owner of this Email ID only and contains
privileged and confidential information. If you received this email by
error, please delete it from your mail box and notify us immediately for
correction. The disclosure of this email to a third party is highly
prohibited.

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