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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +447035948846 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- rafowen@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: raf owen <rafowen4@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:39:13 +0800
Subject: Urgent Respond

Urgent

With heartfelt of sorrow, and an unexpected death that snatched one of our
able bodied men Mr. Brad Clemes, 49 year, from Guelph, Ont, Canada. The
sudden, catastrophic loss on the Air France that gone missing on 01 JUNE
2009.My name is Mr.Raff Owen I am a Senior Manager in Ulster bank London,
our beloved customer who loss his life in the air France Airbus A330-200,
Flight 447's path from Rio de Janeiro Brazil to Paris France, Mr. Brad
Clemes age 49 has been a good customer to us and was on his way from Brazil
to France, before he took off from Brazil he called me that he will be in
United Kingdom shortly after his visit to France, the last I heard that
he’s among the 228 people on board the air France that gone missing in the
Atlantic ocean, he made a good deposit of 1.7 Million Great Britain’s
pounds in our bank without including any beneficiary or relatives. I try to
figure out if I can locate any of his family members but all to no avail,
his particulars for the deposit was trusted in my hand and I can not make
any claim of the money unless someone stand for me as his relatives and then
I can process the paper work and then the fund can be transfer to the person
account any where in the world, without any risk, I contact you in order for
you to stand for me as the relative because if time is wasted the bank
authority will freeze the deposited fund as no indication of any beneficiary
in the deposited slip. I need your co-operation and we shall share the money
70% for me and 30% for you, no one will trace because I will key your name
as the beneficiary of the late customer. All I need from you is honest and
whatever it cost us to make this transaction a success will be deduct before
we share the fund. This is my contact number. +44-7035948846. This is a deal
and we have to handle it now before the bank get to know of the fund.
Please drop your contact number for me to contact, may you keep this deal
secret.

Waiting for urgent answer.

Mr.Raff Owen

Ulster Bank UK.

Reply here: (Rafowen@yahoo.com)

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