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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.joe van" <"www."@ace.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "mr.joe van" <westernuniontransfer551@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 07:49:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention: My Dear Customer your fund is down to transfer to you



Attention: My Dear Customer.

I am Mr.Joe van. due to our Manager was pasted away last week I was appointed as new Manager in this western union office and I went through your our office payment files and find out that you have sum of $4,500,000.00 here in our custody since last two years ago ,I later observed that you need to comply with sum of $150 in order to starts receive your payment.

I am writing to inform you that I have sum amount of money at hand to
assist you to complete your transaction here in our custody, but it's not yet complete and secondly you have to assure me that after I assisted you on this transfer,as soon as you receive your first installation payment that you will refund my money back to me. The reason why I want to assist you out of this payment,because if this fund last for more than three months in our custody,

it will transfer to Government account.I need your urgent respond today,so that we shall starts process your transfer of your first $5000.00.each mtcn and you will be allow to received three payments per day which is $15,000.00 you.
reconfirm Your Receiver Details such as Your name_Address_Country_City_ Tell.Send all these needed information in this Email (westernuniontransfer551@yahoo.com)

I am looking forward to hear from you as the funds beneficiary.
Thanks and God bless,
Mr.Joe van.
Foreign Operation Manager.

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