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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: "Mrs.Melania Trump" <bankofarizona@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Melania Trump" <mrs.melaniatrump8080@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 09:27:46 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: How are you & your family today?



How are you today?

I am Mrs Melania Trump.First Lady of the United States. How are you &
your family today? hope fine. This is the second notice we are sending
to you in regards to your Bank Cheque Draft.

I am written to inform you about your Bank Cheque Draft brought by the
United Embassy from the government of Benin Republic in the white
house Washington DC which contains the sum of $2.500,000.00 us dollars
credited from the bank of America, the delivery of your funds has been
mandated to be deliver to your address today to you as soon as you get
back to me with your home address and your cell phone number.

Bear in mind that I have taking my time to be in charge of your funds
as instructed by my husband to ensure that you received your funds
successfully from the white house to reduce the economy and I’m the
only one that has your funds in regard to my husband Mr. Donald John
Trump and you will have to pay the sum of $68.00.00 only before your
Bank Cheque Draft will deliver to you Today, the reason why the fee is
required is to have your funds clearance paper from the origin of the
funds to avoid any harassment from the authority and you are also
expecting to be announce as winner of the said amount by Wednesday as
soon as your fund is delivered to you.

So you are urgent advised to get back to me with your home address and
also the payment information today for immediate effect of your
delivery. Note that the $68.00 is the only fee and final payment you
have my assurance.

However, according to our agreement with the originated Benin
Republic, all our communications should be on email for record purpose
so follow my instruction accordingly, even if you don’t have the
$68.00 try to borrow it and send it immediately because this is your
life opportunity and I don’t want you to lose the chance any more.

Please I will advice you to urgent make the payment this morning via
western union or money gram money transfer to the listed cashier
information as instructed you by the originated authority. I will look
forward to received your email today with the payment to enable the
origin secure the required clearance papers required at White House
Benin to deliver your funds. Note that it will take only 14hrs to
deliver your Bank Cheque Draft in receipt of the $68.00 payment.

Please find the payment details below to send the $68.00 via western
union or money gram Ria money transfer.

Receiver Name:.......Kin Edward
Country:....... Benin Republic
City:....... Cotonou
Amount: $68.00
MTCN reference number............
I look forward to your respond to your email with the payment today.

Regards
Mrs.Melania Trump
the First Lady of the United States,
The White House
(Official Residence of the President of the USA)
Email:::((mrs.melaniatrump8081@gmail.com))
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20500 USA www.whitehouse.gov

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