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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:

Fraud email example:

From: Gail Christiansen <chrisgm1946@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:44:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Your Commonwealth NetBank email address was successful changed




FULL HEADER FOLLOWS:  Your Commonwealth NetBank email address was successful changed
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:57 PM

>From Commonwealth Bank Thu Apr 23 04:57:33 2009




Return-Path:

<office@commbank.com.au>

Authentication-Results:

mta474.mail.re4.yahoo.com from=commbank.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)

Received:

from 62.6.145.10 (EHLO mailgate.chesneys.co.uk) (62.6.145.10) by mta474.mail.re4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:01:58 -0700

Received:

from chesexch.chesneys.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.chesneys.co.uk (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4EFCF12450B; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:01:17 +0100 (BST)

Received:

from chesexch.chesneys.co.uk ([10.1.1.1]) by mailgate.chesneys.co.uk with ESMTP id IGwINjCk4gwPzi8E; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:01:17 +0100 (BST)

Received:

from User ([75.146.125.49]) by chesexch.chesneys.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:01:05 +0100

Reply-To:

<office@commbank.com.au>

From:


"Commonwealth Bank" <office@commbank.com.au>  Add sender to Contacts

Subject:

Your Commonwealth NetBank email address was successful changed

Date:

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:57:33 -0500

MIME-Version:

1.0

Content-Type:

multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00B1_01C2A9A6.3C818AE6"

Bcc:



Message-ID:

<CHESEXCH7P6umLrXWq00000058a@chesexch.chesneys.co.uk>

Content-Length:

92089


 Message contains attachments

Commonwealth Bank-Email reset form.pdf.htm (66KB)

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, Commonwealth Bank <office@commbank.com.au> wrote:

From: Commonwealth Bank <office@commbank.com.au>
Subject: Your Commonwealth NetBank email address was successful changed
To:
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 11:57 PM

Dear Commonwealth NetBank member,

You have added bluebussines85@yahoo.com.au as a new email address for your
Commonwealth online Bank account.

If you did not authorize this change, check with family members and others who
may have access to your account first. If you still feel that an unauthorized person
has changed your email, submit the form attached to your email in order to keep your
original email and restore your Commonwealth Bank account.


Thank you for using Commonwealth NetBank!

Please do not reply to this email.
This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.

--------------------------------------------------------
© Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2009 ABN 48 123 123 124

DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE
The information contained in this email should only be read by those persons to
whom it is addressed, and is not intended to be relied upon by any person
without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. It may contain
privileged and confidential information, and if you are not the intended
recipient you must not copy, distribute, or take any action in reliance on it.
If you have received this email in error, we would be obliged if you would
respond to the original sender by email notifying them of their mistake, or by
telephone 0700 20 20 700, and delete the email from your computer.
This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
Chesney's for the presence of computer viruses.
If this e-mail contains a password protected document, we cannot be sure of the
integrity of the contents and recommend that you proceed accordingly.





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