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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 Richard Alakpe <"www."@fork.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: Mr Richard Alakpe <uniontrans7@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 08:48:49 +0900 (JST)
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?ATTENSION(ONWARD_INTERNATIONAL_REMITTANCE_)=C2=A9__2017?=



Your Fund Release Order Notice From The Office Of Wester Union © 2017

Compliment of the Season to you! this is to inform you that we are now ready for your payment. Our department has been assigned for an onward international remittance bit by bit to your nominal destination. Your payment has been set on a limit. In the sum of USD$4,920.00 which has been activated for transfer to your name via- Our western Data payment system. The transfer will be coming to you every 24 hours as soon as you forward your full detaills to us so that you will be able to start receiveing your fund bit by bit till your total amount of USD$1,800,000.00 has been paid off to you through Our Money Transfer Data System.NOTE your full details is needed here to enable us make this transfer


Receiver's Name_____

Address: ______

Country: ______

Phone Number: ___

your id card____



Note:

you have to be fast in anything you are doing because this payment has been online since yesterday so you should hurry up to avoid delay.
Though Mr.Richard Alakpe, will be sending $4,920.00 in your name as soon as you contact him, so you can call him( +229-68893300) as soon as you receive this email and tell him to give you the Mtcn, sender
name and question/answer to pick the $4,920.00 Please let us know as soon as you received your fund.
Alternatively on the other hand, your funds would be remitted into your choice Bank account in any part of the world if you so wish to receive the funds via Bank-Bank wire transfer.
If you do not recognize this transaction or for any other inquiries, please feel free to contact us immediately. Meanwhile, you are advised to keep this transaction in utmost confidentiality to avoid putting your transaction in jeopardy.
You have received this email because you are a customer of W. U. This is a genuine email from western Money Transfer Office. However, if you receive an email which does not legitimately originated from us, you can report back before deleting it.
This email message is confidential and to be use by the addressee only. If this message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please delete it from your computer. W.U does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent.
Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by Western union Office in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. You are mostly welcome at our customer fulfillment center by reaching us via e mail (uniontrans7@gmail.com).or txt for help (+229-68893300)




Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Richard Alakpe

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