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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: ann77590451@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:27:07 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

ATTN
BENEFICIARY,

Congratulation,You have won yourself us$2,500,000.00 from our database for using western union money transfer. I am very glad to inform you today that all necessary arrangement in effecting the payment to you as it have been programmed $3,500.00,USD in your payment file.

All you need to do now:Reconfirm your information to enable us make change of the RECEIVER'S NAME to your name, so you can be able to pick it up now.

Your Name:===========
Your Country:========
Your Tel:============

However: this is to inform you that we have been carrying on your payment as to enable us make sure that the payment have be complete before the year will come at the end. Your first payment of $3,500.00, USD is already been Programmed into System.Below is the information of today track it in our(westernunion.com/asp/orderstatus.asp?country=global) to see is available to pick up by the Receiver, I need to hear from you to make the change for security reason to avoid hackers stealing the money online.

{MTCN}Control Number:521875xxxx
SENDERS FIRST NAME:MIKE
SENDERS LAST NAME:SPEARSENDERS
COUNTRY..USA
CITY:MIAMI
TEXT QUESTION: What Color
ANSWER:Green
AMOUNT:$3,500

Waiting for your information to make change of RECEIVER'S NAME to your name and release your MTCN to enable you pick up the fund.

Yours, Johnson Paul
ann77590451@gmail.com

WESTERN UNION DIRECTOR
Miami Florida
USA

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