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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.James ude" <"wwww."@world.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr.James ude" <transfer.moneygram.benin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:31:42 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION DEAR

ATTENTION DEAR
It is my pleasure to inform you that your funds is deposited in Money Gram
remitting office here and we hereby write to inform you that
your full compensation payment of US4.8,000,000.00USD has being deposited here
in our office money gram through high court of benin republic and
you will be receiving $5,000 usd Per day and we have send you the first
payment.

So contact the us with your full transaction information so that we will give
you the money
gram payment information so that you can be able to pick up your First
payment of your funds through money gram without any problem.

Contact email bellow
(transfer.moneygram.benin@gmail.com)

AND CONTACT US WITH YOUR FULL INFORMATION SUCH AS YOUR
1. Full name ............
2. Country...............
3. Contact Address.......
4. Telephone Number .....
5. Marital Status .......
6. Occupation ...........
7. Company ..............
8. Age...................

Call or email us now so that we can provide the money gram information to
you.

call director .Mr.James ude ON phone number or email him and ask him on how to
receive your fund
phone number(+229)-9770-0851 email address (transfer.moneygram.benin@gmail.com)

Thanks and Remain Blessed

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