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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 2022 Award Notification <gggracamachel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 04:05:29 -0700
Subject: YOU HAVE WON,CONGRATULATIONS!


WINNING NUMBER: WUNT/0768/SA/2022


Dear Award Winner,

We Celebrate our 171st years Annual Anniversary 2022 of Western Union was
founded in 1851; we rolled out over USD$260, 000, 000, 00 (Two hundred and
Sixty Million United State Dollars) for our 171st Anniversary draws. All
participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000,00 company email addresses, and 30,000,00 individual email addresses
from over 40 networks from Australia, New Zealand, North America, South
America, Europe, all Asia and Africa as part of international promotion
held in the United Kingdom.

We officially Announce to you that your email address has just Won the sum
of *USD$920.000,* 00 (Nine Hundred and twenty Thousand United State
Dollars) to begin the verification process of your prize;



Your Winning award paying receiving office falls in Pretoria Western Union
Regional Office South Africa. you should send the required information to
the claim agent

The Claim Transferring Agent's Contact Details are as Follows:
Name: Massimiliano Alvi
Email: officeonlineuk@europe.com

Telephone: +27-835932648

You should establish contact with the redeeming transferring manager via
email or telephone with the particulars presented below for immediate
payment to your bank account; please remember to quote your winning file
number and your winning transferring identification code in your
correspondence to him.

Fill the following information's
1. Bank Name:...................
2. Beneficiary:.....................
3. Account Number:..............
4. Bank Address:.....................
5. Swift Code or Routing Number:.............
6. Your Mobile Telephone Number:...........
7. Date of Birth:......................
8. Occupation:.........................
9. Country:..............................
10. Sex:..........................
11. Alternative email:..................


You will be contacted by western union transferring manager in the next 24
hours as soon as you forwarded your required bank account information to
him for the transfer.
Save time, send money, earn rewards! Western Union is a service people
trust.
YOUR WINNING TRANSFER IDENTIFICATION CODE (WUNT/0768/UK/2022).
© 2008-2022 WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, INC. All Rights Reserved.

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