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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 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.
Fraud email example:
From: "ADMIN OFFICE Cc Y.MARCBELTON@USBANK.COM Cc" <marcc.belton@ymail.com>
Reply-To: "ADMIN OFFICE Cc Y.MARCBELTON@USBANK.COM Cc" <usbank.nevada@email.biz>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:29:00 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Two crooks Mr Paul Johnson & Mr David Anderson that used your name/contact to moved $14.9Million and $3.9Million Funds to Nevada USA. Did initially transferred out $14.9Million to Pakistan and then kept $3.9Million for you as a compensation because according to them as now confessed that they used your name/contact without your consent. Their actions became suspicious when they came back late year 2013 to the Office of the international Envoy that brought to Money from Denmark to the USBank Nevada USA Thre
Your Truly
Marc Y. Belton.
Independent Director US-BANK PLc Nevada USA.
2300 W. Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
www.usbank.com
ttp://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=117565&p=irol-govcommcomp#
U.S. BANCORP made the following annotations
Also: The Executive Vice President: General Mills, Inc
www.generalmills.com/Company/Leadership/Y_Marc_Belton.aspx
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