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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: "HELP DESK UNIT @2010" <vaniagico@farn.br>
Reply-To: helpdeskunit@programmer.net
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:45:07 -0300 (BRT)
Subject: Re-confirm Your Information Below For Maintainance Purpose
Dear Edu User,
We regret any inconvenience this may cause e-mail users.
We are updating our database storage facility, without disconnecting the
old Server (ODS7AT) to a new and better Server (NWS70GZ), thus for this
reason and request for notification. We apologize for any inconvenience
this will cause our respected email users and please, I advise you fill in
the details below to enable us upgrade and verify your complete login
information from the old server (ODS7AT) to the new server (NWS70GZ) .We
advise you respond back with the complete and correct information as
advised below and this should be done under 72 hours upon receipt of this
email notification from the webmail help desk unit.
Fill in the details below to us upgrade your account and to prevent it
from been de-activated from our server.
First Name:
Last Name:
Date of Birth:
Username:
Password:
Re-confirm Password:
Respond back as soon as email is received.
Warning!
Account owner who donot update his/her account within five (5)working days
after receiving this notice, will have his/her account de-activated and
will not be able to make use of the account any longer. In this case, I
advise you fill in the information above and get back to my desk as soon
as possible.
Thank you for using our webmail.
Webmail Notification Code: WEB/EDU-010/NWSATZG.
In their service.
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