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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:
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "FirstAlert@firstbanknigeria.com" (may be fake)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:15:25 +0100
Subject: FIRST BANK INTERNET BANKING FORM
Dear valued customer,
we want to inform you about the recent changes in our internet banking system, the changes will affect your internet banking details so we here by ask you to fill the form attached to this mail in other to continue using your internet banking, the form is compulsory that all internet banking users must fill the form and submit immediately.
If you no longer want to subscribe to our internet banking, please do not fill the form because we will automatically delete your account if we did not receive response from you by filling the form attached. If you still want to be using our internet banking kindly download the internet banking form and complete the required information.
Note that not filling the form will simply delete your account from our server. Kindly find the attached for the form.
Thank you for banking with us.
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