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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- 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.
- danielababy4all@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Daniela Patrick <stanley4east@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: danielababy4all@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:05:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: hello
Hola querida
Mi nombre es Daniela me
encontré con el correo de hoy me interesaba hacer amistad con usted.
me gusta que seamos amigos, yo
también me gustaría saber que cuanto más mejor, y quiero enviar un
correo electrónico a mi dirección de correo electrónico
(danielababy4all@yahoo.com) para que yo pueda darle mi imagen para usted
saber que Yo soy yo creo que podemos avanzar de aquí!
(Recuerde que la distancia o
el color no importa, sino el amor asuntos mucho en la vida) Gracias.
Atentamente Daniela
Hello my dear
My name is Daniela i came
across your mail today i was interested making friendship with you.
i will like us to be friends,i
will also like to know you the more better,and i want you to send an
email to my email address (danielababy4all@yahoo.com)so i can give you
my picture for you to know whom i am i believe we can move from here!
(Remember the distance or
color does not matter but love matters a lot in life)Thanks.
Yours Daniela
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