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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- 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.
- 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.
- bankplc_firstcitymonument21@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "MR.Steve James" <brathwaelcarlelcarl@rocketmail.com>
Reply-To: bankplc_firstcitymonument21@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:29:30 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: First City Monument Bank Nigeria
Attn: Sir/Madam,
We are instructed by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to
pay a compensation payment to some listed fraud victims and we have
contacted you previously in regards to this new development, but we did
not receive any response from you.
Please whatever you are doing, we urge you to kindly do it very fast so
that we can start processing your compensation payment through ATM card
immediately because the Federal Ministry of Finance and the EFCC has given
us Final order to return any fund that was unclaimed by the beneficiary
back to CBN Federation account.
We advise you to kindly reconfirm to us your full name, Occupation,
address and your phone number so that we can start processing your payment
immediately.
Here is my cell phone to contact me. +234 80 34243731 or you can as well
email with this email address { bankplc_firstcitymonument21@yahoo.com }
Please view the document I uploaded for you using any sites docs.
CLICK HERE just sign in with your email respectively to view the document
it's very important
Yours truly,
Steve James
First City Monument Bank Nigeria
(FCMB)
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