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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: "REV. FRANK ANTHONY." <"WWW."@oregano.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "REV. FRANK ANTHONY." <worldserve@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 05:26:52 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ATTENTION !!!

REV. FRANK ANTHONY

Dear Owner Email Read carefully,

This is to inform you that International Monetary Fund IMF is compensating all the scam victims $2.700,000.00 USD each, and your email address was found in the scam victim’s list.

This Money Gram Head Office has been mandated by the IMF Director to transfer your compensation fund to you via Money Gram Transfer Daily. We the Money Gram Office here stated that you will be receiving your fund $2.700.000.00 at the maximum of $5,000.00 daily until the whole money is completely transfer to you. We have sent out your first payment $5,000 but it placed on hold because your payment is not yet activated. BELOW IS YOUR FIRST PAYMENT $5,OOO.OOUSD but still on hold

Here is Available Reference Number for pick up by receiver Below:

(Track the MTCN track) by visiting:::::::::
https://secure.moneygram.com/track
MTCN#________________________ 50556890#
Sender’s First Name:――- John
Sender’s Last Name:――Emeka
Sender’s Location:――- Seattle,Benin Republic
Amount sent:――- $5000

Remember we need your full information as where we will be sending the funds, such as to avoid wrong transfer,

Receiver name:-________
Address:-__________
Country:-____________
Phone number:-_____________

Note that you are not expected to pay for transfer charges all the fee has been paid by International Monetary Fund the depositor. The only fee you will you send before you will start picking up your daily payment $5,000.00 as it was sign is only $150.00 for the activation of your Money Gram payment transfer files. Note that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 72 hours if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to us by the IMF.

Contact us Below:((worldserve@outlook.com)or(moneygramoffice380@gmail.com))

Thanks,
REV. FRANK ANTHONY
The Money Gram Director Benin Republic Email-( mr.frankanthony1999@yahoo.com )

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