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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: "Mr.Gorge Jodan" <marcelozm2022@gmail.com>
Reply-To: westernuniononline371@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:30:26 +0100
Subject: Attention dear customer

Attention dear customer

The International Monetary Fund Annual ­Compensation from ECO-WAS. The
International
Monetary Fund (IMF) office contacted me and said that you are among
one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their
overdue payment from overseas which includes those of
Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance that the transaction the
bank contacted you previously was legal.Recently the fund has been
legally approved to be paid through WESTERN Union online transfer.and
they deposited the sum of $4.2 Million United States is completely
transferred to you the receiver.And your information is among the list
which they submitted in our office today.

This WESTERN UNION®office has been mandated by the IMF to transfer
your compensation
to you via WESTERN Union®Money Transfer .However, we have concluded to
affect your own payment through western union®Money Transfer, $5000.00
pay day until the total sum of $4.2 Million United States is
completely transferred to you the receiver. We cannot be able to send
the payment with your email address alone, we are hereby needed your
information to where we will be sending the funds. Here is the
information to pick up your first payment of $5000 through Western
Union store close to you.

You are to pay for the activation of the MTCN reference number so we
can activate it with your name immediately.

Money Reference Number (REF): 691 339..
Sender's First Name:LEO
Sender's Last Name: MOON
MTCN:# 691 339 ..

You Can Text or Call once you fill below Information;

(Receivers name)............­
(Country)..................... ..­
(Address)..................... ........­...
(Phone Number).....................­
(Your Age).......................... ..­......
(ID copy)............. ................­..
(Your Email Address)...................­

Here is Western Union Director Information
Contact person ;Mr.W. Alexander Holmes
His Phnoe No; text or call Mobile:+1 2027965440
Email address ; westernuniononline371@gmail.com

NOTE: That your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 48
hours if we did not hear from you because this was ­the instruction
given to us by the IMF office here in United Kingdom .We will start
the transfer as soon as we received your information. You are hereby
warned not to communicate or duplicate this message for any reason
what so ever because the US FBI is already on trace of the criminals
from Africa.

Sincerely,
Mr.Gorge Jodan

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