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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- 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!
Fraud email example:
From: Carolina Curtis <info@lee.com>
Reply-To: mikejohnson77@aliyun.com
Date: 16 Nov 2019 04:22:14 +0800
Subject: E-Notifacation !!!
The EUROMILLIONS REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200- We are happy to inform you via email that your email address emerged winner in the EUROMILLIONS Lottery Electronic jackpot during National Lottery annual global random draw, your active e-mail address attached to our computer data base during the annual random draw generated winning ticket number : 56475600545188 as winnner of $2.5 million United State Dollar in the EUROMILLIONS Lottery second category proportion draw.
For security reasons we advise winners to keep winning information confidential until they receive their winning, this is part of our protective security measures. Click on the link below for more prove about recent and past winners https://www.thelotter.com/lottery-winners/
For more details about your winning prize contact Mr. Mike Johnson for immediate processing of your winning by filling in the information below. Full Name : Home Address : Gender : Occupation : Nationality Age : Phone Number : Email : mikejohnson77@aliyun.com Online Co-coordinator Teresa Marie Roberts
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