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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 uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- 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.
- rose_filcher@hotmail.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Filcher Rose <graziariccitiello@tin.it>
Reply-To: rose_filcher@hotmail.fr
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:42:45 +0100 (CET)
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?JE_D=C3=89SIRE_CORRESPONDRE_AVEC_TOI?=
Salut cher ami
Je me nomme FILCHER Rose médecin âgée de 29 ans d'origine canadienne,
célibataire sans enfant. Mon désir ardent est de pouvoir nouer une
parfaite relation
avec vous afin de bien connaître mes semblables et de pouvoir joindre
les deux bouts
un jour (une rencontre). Dans une idée claire et saine, sans rien vous
cacher, nous pourrons
échanger les variétés culturelles et autres, aussi on pourra mieux se
connaître et même
se rencontrer parce que je voyage beaucoup et peu me rendre chez vous
un jours.
L'amitié réduit de moitié les peines et doubles les joies. VoilÃ
pourquoi j'aimerais
correspondre avec vous, Enfin d'aboutir a une rencontre sérieuse.
En effet c'est après une longue recherche de mail sur les sites de
correspondance
que je suis arrivée à vous identifier parmi tant d'adresse.
Ãmail privée: rose_filcher@hotmail.fr
Je vous embrasse
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