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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.
- p6heymann@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: UN Spokesman <"office."@alto.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: paul.hy1@box.ua
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:45:57 +0900 (JST)
Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Atenci=C3=B3n:?=
Atención:
Tengo el placer de informarles que hemos trabajado en pro de la erradicación de los artistas de los estafadores en el mundo con la ayuda de la Unión Africana (UA) Naciones Unidas (ONU) de la Unión Europea (UE) y hemos podido rastrear a algunos artistas En varias partes del mundo y están todos bajo custodia del gobierno ahora.
Durante la investigación, fueron capaces de recuperar algunos fondos de estos artistas y todas las organizaciones han acordado y ordenado Mr.Heymans, los fondos recuperados para ser compartidos entre los 15 Lucky personas que figuran como una compensación. Esta notificación le ha sido dirigida porque su dirección de correo electrónico fue encontrada en uno de los archivos del artista y el disco duro de la computadora durante la investigación, por lo que se le está pagando con una suma de US $ 7 millones de dólares en tarjeta de cajero automático.
La tarjeta ATM con su número de PIN de seguridad le será entregado por el Sr. Heymans asà que póngase en contacto con él en su correo electrónico (p6heymann@gmail.com) con sus datos personales para poder proceder con esta transacción.
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Firmado por el Secretario General de la ONU, Antonio Guterres,
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