419 Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam (2006-01)

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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.
- secretary@usa.com (Outblaze.com, Hong Kong; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- conference secretariat via email:savethechildren. secretary@usa.com or savethechildren.secretary@doctor.com as soon as possible. (Usa; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- savethechildren.secretary@doctor.com (Doctor; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Laura.juel" <Laura.juel@libero.it>
Reply-To: Laura.juel@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:22:09 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: SAVE THE CHILDREN/SCHOOL GIRLS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INVITATION
USA 2014.

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of Save the children organization USA, It is a great privilege for
us to invite you
to international conference meeting on war affected Children/Child abuse.

The aims of the conference are to bring together researchers and practitioners
in an effort to lay
the ground work for future collaborative research, advocacy, and program
development as well as to educate social service, health care, and criminal
justice professionals on human trafficking and the needs and risks of those
victimized by war and commercial sex industry and to deliberate on how to
abolish the abduction of school girls in Nigeria and some other parts of
Africa/rest of the world. Also to encourage our boys and girls to acquire sound
education and to help correct the impression that "western education is sinful
in the lives of our children" said by Boko Haram leader in Nigeria.

The global Congress meeting against Child abuse and war-affected children is
scheduled to take
place from JULY 21ST - 25TH JULY 2014 in Chicago the United States and in
Dakar-Senegal, from JULY 28TH - 1ST AUG 2014.

Note that all interested delegates that requires entry visa to enter the
United States to attend this meeting will be assisted by the organization, in
obtaining the visa in their passport. Free air round trip tickets to attend
this meeting will be provided to all participants. The Workshop welcomes paper
presentation from any interested participants willing to present papers during
the meeting.

If you are interested in attending and for fast respond contact the Save the
children organization conference secretariat via email:savethechildren.
secretary@usa.com or savethechildren.secretary@doctor.com as soon as possible.
Please share the information with your
colleagues.

Sincerely,
Ms Laura juel
(Ph.D) Activities Coordinator
Save the Children Organization
Email:
Laura.juel@yahoo.com

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