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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.
- mike.oneilee@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mike Oneil" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mike.oneilee@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:24:32 -0700
Subject: Excuse me.
I hope that this correspondence is received with the urgency and
expediency required.
It has come to the notice of the Board of Trustees at the CBN that your
present inheritance claims application being handled by the Remitting
Bank in Nigeria is experiencing some man made irregularities.
To this effect,it has become necessary for the Board of Trustees to
invite trained Fund Transfer Specialists from the United States to
resolve and regularize your fund release with immediate effect.
We at Mike Oneil & Associates have been duly consulted by the CBN
Board of Trustees and have been fully informed about how the staff of
the remitting bank have been taking advantage of you by telling you to
pay unnecessarily exorbitant charges which will only make your fund
payment a long drawn out process.
Due to this we have decided to step into the process of your fund
transfer to enable your funds to be transferred within the soonest
possible time you are to get back to us immediately without needing to
pay all the huge sums of monies that are being demanded from you by the
remitting bank.
All processes to have your funds paid to you immediately through the
CBN's Laison Remittance Office in New York has been initiated to cut out
unnecessary costs
.
You are advised to keep this communication highly confidential as the
CBN Board of Trustees have asked us to resolve this fund payment
independent of the office of the CBN Governor to identify the principal
participants in this unethical payment procedure.
Further more,you are hereby advised to pay no further fees or charges
to the Remitting Bank in Nigeria as they shall no longer be handling
your payment process. We shall await your immediate correspondence with
your direct telephone numbers for re-confirmation to my confidential
email address at(mike.oneilee@yahoo.com)so that we may conclude your
payment immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
Mike Oneil
Mike Oneil & Associates c/o CBN
Direct telephone numbers and personal information for re-confirmation
to my confidential
email address at(mike.oneilee@yahoo.com)so that we may conclude your
payment immediately
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