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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: WESTERN UNION OFFICE <order@kitchen-navi.net>
Reply-To: wu226376@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:04:47 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION DEAR BENEFICIARY



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WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.AFRICAN FASTER WAY FOR SENDING AND
RECEIVING MONEY WORLDWIDE:
ADDRESS 445 DEROPKO,AKPAKPA COTONOU,BENIN REPUBLIC.

Welcome to Western Union Head Office and this is to inform you that usa
president Joseph R. Biden has given the final order after conference
meeting held yesterday with the Kristalina Georgieva.International
Monetary Fund (I.M.F) compensating all the scam victims with
$3.200.000.00 USD here in Benin Republic (Three Million Two Hundred
Thousand Dollar Only and your email address was found in the scam
victim's list. this Western Union head office has been mandated by the
International Monetary Fund (I.M.F) Director to transfer your
compensation fund to you via Western Union Money Transfer Daily. We the
western union office here stated that you will be receiving your fund
$3.200.000.00 at the maximum of $ 5,000.00 daily until the whole fund
$3.200.000.00 is completely transfer to you.

to prove this right to you, your first installment payment of $5,000.00
(Five Thousand United State Dollars) has been sent. We would require
that you click on the link (
https://www.westernunion.com/global-service/track-transfer ) and follow
required, enter the (AUTHORIZATION OR REFERENCE) 418 292 1170 # number

MTCN________________________ ( 418 292 1170 )
Sender’s First Name:-------MR MIKE
Sender’s Last Name:------BROWN
Sender’s Location:------- Seattle,Benin Republic
Amount sent:-------5,000,00 USD

If you prefer to receive your funds in form of an ATM Visa Card, we
could load and ship your ATM Visa Card to your address which will
permit you a daily withdrawal limit of 10,000 thousand dollars only per
day

Remember we needed your full information where your second payments of
5,000.00 USD will be deposited to avoid wrong transfer such as,


Your Full Name:............................
Your Home Address:......................
Your Country/ City: .............................
Your Age:....................................
Your Sex:........................................
Your Direct Phone Number:..........................
Your ID copy:............................


I know this will come to you as a surprise hearing your funds is
available for you to receive now after many years of struggling to
receiving your fund,
Note that your payment files will be returned to the I.M.F within 72
hours if we did not hear from you, this was the instruction given to us
by the IMF.

Western Union

MR MIKE BROWN
direct cellphone number +22965511864
EMAIL ME HERE wu226376@gmail.com
============================== ==============================
Western Union Money Transfer Agent Location, EMS Post Office.
Registered No: 1026167. Head Office: 125 Marina Street, Cotonou Benin
Du' Republic of Benin

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