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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: Jonh Kenedy <jonhkenedy575@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:04:05 +0100
Subject: Attention

Our Ref : WUMT0XX2/987.

Dear beneficiary


There is an issue with the western union money transfer in the amount
of US$4.8 Million, at the owner of this email address. The united
nation and international monetary fund contacted us for the release of
your fund some couple of hour's ago, due to your allocated security
code they choose to transfer it to you through Western Union Money
Transfer but we are unable to complete a transfer directed at an email
address, so we require more information in order to complete this
transfer as listed below.



(1)Full Name ....
(2)Age...
(3)Country....
(4)City....
(5)Marrital Status...
(6)Occupation...
(7)Telephone Number...


NOTE: This is not one of those internet scammer's that all they do is
to collect payment from beneficiaries without sending them their fund,
we have map out a monitoring agent that will hold them responsible so
all you need to do right now is to send your full information to us,
It's directly from the Management of Western Union Money Transfer
Benin Republic Head Office and our Motto is to "serve you better". we
will be sending you US$5,000 per transfer because transferring the
total fund into your account will cost you more that is why they has
given us order to be sending it via western union.




Contact person Mr James Kacci, contact:Mr James Kacci on his email
Address jameskacci333@gmail.com now to give you the western union
information to pick your payment Thanks,

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