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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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "foreign service manager" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- 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.
- normandyboyd@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mrs. Angela M. Johnson" <planet.inc2002@gmail.com>
Reply-To: normandyboyd@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:17:08 -0700
Subject: Notification!! SCarey@aamroco.com
- This mail is in HTML. Some elements may be ommited in plain text. -
Ref Nº: UK/KB3A290EF6
BH Nº: 233570765234
Congratulations! Winning Notification!
UK online international Lottery Award Prize of £820,731.00 (Eight Hundred and Twenty
Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty One British Pounds).
Email Account Owner,
Congratulations!! We are happy to announce that you have won an online lottery prize in our International lottery promotion.
Your active e-mail address attached to computer generated ticket number: BH 233570765234
With reference number UK/KB3A290EF6 has won UK Lottery 2nd category award prize.
Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by
Providing details as listed below.
UK Lottery Fiduciary Agents: Mr. Jason Boyd
Foreign Service Manager
Watford Regional Centre
Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .United Kingdom
Please send me mail here I will reply you (
normandyboyd@gmail.com
)
As soon as you have received this email
You have 7 Working days to claim your prize or it will be called back by the Lottery board of director
Thank you and Congratulation once again!
Angela M. Johnson.
(Online coordinator)
The UK Lottery International Promotion Inc.
"Please do not reply back to the senders address or the from email address, this notification is sent automatically via computer virtual
Notification to winning email addresses and a response will not be attended by Human but computer" contact the fiduciary agents as
Above?
NAME / SURNAME ???????????????Age ?????????
REFERENCE NO: ?????????.BATCH NO: ????????????.
OCCUPATION: ????..?........... COUNTRY: ???.???????????????.
TELEPHONE: ??............................. MOBILE PHONE: ????????????
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