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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: "Charles LeRoy" <joyful2@mail.dcwisp.net>
Reply-To: "Charles LeRoy" <webmailcustomersevice147@one.co.il>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:37:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Security Warning
Webmail Customer Care Support
Dear Account User,
An HTK4S virus has been detected in your E-mail folders because your
email has exceeded its storage limits which is 20GB as set by
administrator you may no longer be able to received some 101kb mails. Your
email account therefore requires verification for continuous activity or
you may not be able to send or receive new mail . And your Webmail
account has to be upgraded to our new F-Secure R HTK4S
anti-virus/anti-Spam version 2011 to prevent damage to our mail log and
your important files. You are required to do this before the next 24 hours
of receipt of this email or your info will be erased and De-activated from
our database.fill the form on this link below
Email: ...............
Username: ................
Password: .................
Confirm Password:..........
Upgrade To:..........
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We apologies for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this
period.
Warning!!! Webmail Account owners are expected to update their accounts
within 48hrs,after receipt of this notice. Failure to do this will
immediately render your account deactivated from our database and service
will not be interrupted as important messages may as well be lost due to
your declining to re-comfirmed to us your account details. We apologies
for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period, but
trusting that we are here to serve you better and providing more
technology which revolves around Secured Email
Sincerely,
Charles Leroy
System Administrator Team.
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