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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: "MRS RECHEAL NANA ESSIEN" <info@family.web.co>
Reply-To: recheal.essien@yandex.ru
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:34:50 -0800 (AKDT)
Subject: Your E-mail Has Won =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A3485=2C000.00_GBP?=
Hello Dear,
I hope my message to you will be given proper attention despite the fact
we have not known or met each other before.I am contacting you in respect
to my late husband's fund worth US$8.5Million deposited with diplomatic
company in London for security purposes.But right now my husband is dead
and the security company has been giving me several notifications to make
the claim of the said fund before it is being declared unserviceable by
their company's management. I want a situation whereby you assist me to
make the claim of this fund from the security company so that it will be
delivered to your custody pending my arrival to your country so that we
can use it judiciously for investment purposes.
I will be offering you 20% of the fund for your foreign assistance as long
as you can help me out in carrying out this project effectively without
insinuating greed and selfishness. I am contacting you in this respect for
the below purposes,
1, My financial incapability of making the claim at the moment.
2, To avoid awareness of my late husband's relatives because they would
like to inherit it alone if i dare disclose it to them.
3, To avoid awareness of Benin Republic Government about the fund since my
husband was a former politician in Benin.
4, UK market is so expensive to invest such amount on business.
Reply at my private box at rnessien@live.com for more details
Yours sincerely
Mrs Recheal Nana Essien
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