419 scam: good luck <www.@trust.ocn.ne.jp> ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION FBI HEADQUARTERS IN NEW<br> YORK FEDER

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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:

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.

Fraud email example:

From: good luck <www.@trust.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: good luck <GoodLuck5607@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:40:14 +0900 (JST)
Subject: ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION FBI HEADQUARTERS IN NEW
YORK FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONETARY CRIMES DIVISION FBI HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that your E-mail address was among the email that Won Google Award which was not paid out to you, we want to let you know that one of the bank worker where your fund was deposited arrange with his friend to come as the owner of the E-mail to be able to claim your funds, but now your fund has been recovered from them and they have been arrested.

If you receive any E-mail that you did not understand that is from unknown person please do forward it to us to verify and we will bring the person to justice and if you have sent money to unknown person which you believe is a scam kindly send us a proof and your money which you lost will be added to your winning funds immediately before we can transfer to your private account. It has also come to the attention of our Money trafficking investigation department, that you have some funds valued at GBP 2.5 millions Great British Pounds on your name, the funds is awaiting transfer to you and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you, this funds are from benin republic.

Re-confirm,
Names,
Address,
Phone Number,
Age / sex,
Occupation and Country,
to avoid double claim of your fund.

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