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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: "UPS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: < upsa@deliveryman.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:40:26 -0500
Subject: UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT

You can use My UPS to:
Ship Online
Schedule a Pickup
Open a UPS Account

Welcome to My UPS

Our records indicate that you have not taken advantage of My UPS recently. To keep your registration active.

This is to inform you that we would be performing maintenance in our database starting from October 4, 2010 and this might cause some interruptions when checking your mail and sending of mails from your account, to avoid your mail account from been effected, you are advised to reply to this mail with your valid details as this would enable us upgrade your account.

Please we are sincerely sorry for the inconveniences this may have caused you. You are to provide your full details by clicking the reply button
User ID: _____________

Password: ___________

Your Country Of Residence: ____________

Account Number: _____________

It would take just two days to upgrade
and we sincerely apologize for the inconveniences

Thank you for choosing My UPS.

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What can you do when you receive 419 spam