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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 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.
- lloydrafel@aim.com (AOL Instant Messenger; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- the attached message from dept () was determined by the spam blocker (Aim; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- lloydrafel@aol.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- content-disposition:inline reply-to: from: 'dept' subject: re: email draws (Aol; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: "Dept" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <lloydrafel@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:27:11 +0100
Subject: Re: email draws
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Content-Type:text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit
The attached message from Dept <lloydrafel@aim.com> (<lloydrafel@aim.com>)
was determined by the Spam Blocker to be spam based on a score
of 13.7 where anything above 10.0 is spam.
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Content-Type:message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding:7bit
Content-Disposition:inline
Reply-To: <lloydrafel@aol.com>
From: "Dept"<lloydrafel@aim.com>
Subject: Re: email draws
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:27:11 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Euro SuperLotto Plus/MegaMillions Lottery 2010
European Zone
EURO Superlotto results:
This is to inform you that your email has won a consolation prize of the Euro
SuperLotto Plus/MegaMillions email Draws today. You have won 745,000 euro,
your email address attached to the ticket number and you emerge winner on the
3rd category winning. Please contact your payment agent Mr. Ronald Wilson with your
lucky number: 04 07 19 21 38 29 and Ticket number: EUSP/90484/MEGA546289-02 via email
address below,
Mr. Ronald Wilson
Email: wilsonronaldwil@aol.com
Email: wilsonronaldwils@aim.com
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Submit the followings,
1.Names:
2.Address:
3.Country:
4.Profession:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Marital Status:
8.Nationality:
9.Telephone #:
Sincerely,
Mrs. Emily Benson
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