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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: "Motion Federal Credit Union Bank." <nirejsh@gmail.com>
Reply-To: motionfederalcreditunionbank@email.com
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:51:15 +0000
Subject: Dear Customer


/Motion Federal Credit Union Bank.
Address[1]: 360 Wood Ave, Linden, NJ 07036, USA

Dear  Customer,/
/We Write to inform you that, we the Motion Federal Credit Union Bank
received a payment credit instruction from Bank of America  to credit
your account with your compensation funds of US$10.5Million from New
York reserve account with our bank, Motion Federal Credit Union Bank,/

/Attention  to you, the new Government want to compensate some
individual's and all the scam victims with the sum of $10.5Million and
you were appointed, congratulations to you.

These are the information's  needed to  reconfirm and  commence the
Transaction immediately./

/(1) your full name:
(2) full address of your city, state and country:
(3) phone, fax and mobile:
(4) company name, position and address:
(5) Profession, age and marital status:
(6) A copy of your int’l passport/drivers license./
 
/Regards,
Motion FCU/
/Phone: +1 323 435 1089/


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https://www.google.com.ng/search?site=async/lcl_akp&q=motion+credit+union+address&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LWT9c3LMlJtogvKdOSzU620s_JT04syczPgzOsElNSilKLiwEybCpsLgAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIuIrrv5DWAhUQK1AKHZpWANMQ6BMIFjAD

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