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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:
- "western union" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "inheritance funds" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "remain blessed" (scammers in West Africa like to use religious phrases)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
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.
- thomasphillip67@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Phillip" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <thomasphillip67@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 06:13:34 +0200
Subject: VERY URGENT ABOUT FUNDS . I felt expedient to write and inform you on the wicked conspiracy hatched by Dr.David

In accordance to my religious persuasion and total submission to the will of God almighty, I felt expedient to write and inform you on the wicked conspiracy hatched by Dr.David Edward director WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER Benin and Mr Hugh Graham(The foreigner he involved) to divert your approved inheritance funds to their designated account in Europe. From my position as a loyal clerk in this office, I discovered that they moved your fund of US$1.5M to Switzerland Europe several months ago with intention of sharing it between themselves if they had succeeded .

Just Two weeks ago I found out through the Central computer data-base that they are about to re-route your fund from Barclays Bank United Kingdom to Credit Suisse Groupe Switzerland before European Financial Regulators traced the money and informed the Benin financial regulators for verification, I felt that it is important for me to alert you on this development.

They are still using your name and inheritance identification number as the beneficiary but they have changed the account co-ordinate claiming that you were the person who asked them to represent you and authorized them to transferred the money out of Benin to Europe.This was the reason why they asked you for endless fee to frustrate you so as to abandon the claim for them to enrich themselves

I have the reference number of the transaction . Your payment is supposed to go through the Swiss credit control financial clearing house
before finally Lodge into their SWiss account the European financial regulators traced the fund and informed the Benin financial regulators who has involved since last week Friday.

All the data about your claim profile are within my reach. I do not need gratification from you either in cash or kind. I can never be a part of this evil because of my religion. Please respect my discretion in this matter, you can send an email to me so that I can give you the reference number and the name and contact information of the officials of the Benin financial regulatory commission involve now.

FULLADDRESS
FULL NAME
DIRECT CELL NUMBER
ID CARD COPY...

EMAIL ME AT thomasphillip67@gmail.com

NOTE I repeat, please do not expose my person, it is not easy to get employment around here and I cannot contend with these powerful individuals because they can eliminate me just like that. Just stop communicating with either of those men who desperately want to extort money from you to flee particularly the wicked Dr.David Gibson, dont even answer any of their mails again.

Remain Blessed,

Phillip

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