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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: money gram office <"www."@poem.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: money gram office <grammoney3544@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 19:29:05 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Subject: URGENT & IMPORTANT

Subject: URGENT & IMPORTANT

I am Dr. Mohamed S. Ahmed, MD Ministry Of Finance and chief coordinator of ongoing compensation program in favor of scammed victims; This fund $1,300,000.00 United States dollars was approved in your favor but was diverted by corrupt Government officials and bankers. This information was received last week and on Monday, my office received from the office of the newly elected president of Benin Republic in the person of Patrice Talon to contact you accordingly, this is good news because you are now entitled to start receiving $5,000USD on a daily basis through MONEY GRAM office as scammed victim until the total Fund $1,3million us dollars is been completely transferred to you.

Contact Dr. Williams Watts
Email: grammoney3544@gmail.com
Tele: +229-99304735
Update him with your contact detail such as:
Receiver name:--------------
Country:----------------------
City:---------------------------
Test question:--------------------
Answer:----------------------------
Telephone number:--------------------
Your occupation:-----------------------
Your age\ pass port id:------------------

For confirmation and verification, he will provide you the necessary information to pick up your first payment of $5,000USD today. Your compensation. Funds is ($1.300.000.00usd)

Thank you,

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