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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: "Mrs.Melania Trump" <"www."@clock.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Melania Trump" <officef867@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:47:08 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From The Desk of Mrs.Melania Trump, First Lady of the United States
of America,

From The Desk of Mrs.Melania Trump, First Lady of the United States of America,


I am Melania Trump the First Lady of the United States. and I am writing to inform you about your Bank Draft Cheque brought

by the United Embassy from the government of Benin Republic in the white house Washington DC which contains the sum of

($50.000.000 Millions) dollars credited from the bank of America. The delivery of your funds has been mandated to be

delivered to your address on Tuesday being 1st of jan 2017 to you as soon as you get back to me with your home address and

your cell phone number.

Bear in mind that I have taking my time to be in charge of your funds as instructed by my husband to ensure that you received

your funds successfully from the white house to reduce the economy and I'm the only one that has your funds in regard to my

husband Mr.donald john trump and you will have to pay the sum of $150 only before your Bank Draft Cheque will be delivered to

you on Tuesday. The reason why the fee is required is to have your funds clearance paper secured from the origin of the funds

to avoid any harassment from the authority and you are also expecting to be announced as the winner of the said amount by

Wednesday as soon as your fund is delivered to you.

So you are urgent advised to get back to me with your home address and also the payment information today for immediate

effect of the delivery. Note that the $150 is the only fee and final payment you have my assurance.

However, according to our agreement with the originated Benin Republic, all our communications should be on email for

recording purpose, so follow my instruction accordingly, even if you don't have the $150 try to borrow it and send it

immediately because this is your life opportunity and I don't want you to lose the chance this time.

Please I will advise you to urgent make the payment this morning via western union or money gram money transfer to the listed

cashier information as instructed you by the originated authority. I will look forward to received your email today with the

payment to enable the origin secure the needed clearance papers required at White House Benin to deliver your funds. Note

that it will take only 14hrs to deliver your Bank Draft Cheque in receipt of the $150 payment.

Please find the payment data below to send the $150 via western union or money gram.

Receiver Name:. Christ Eze
Country. .Benin Republic
City. . Cotonou
Question:. . God
Answer:. . Saves
Zip code:+229
Amount:. . $150
MTCN reference number.
Sender Name. .
Sender's Telephone.
Sender's Address.

I look forward to your respond to this email with the payment today.

Regards

Mrs.Melania Trump
The White House [Melaniatrump@web.co.zw]
(Official Residence of the President of the US)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500 US

248) 460-1327

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