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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: Jama <jamajombo@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jombojama@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:16:09 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: PLEASE DO WELL TO REPLY ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
MR/MISS GREATING TO YOU
my name is Miss Jombo Jama I am a girl of 22 years old . I saw your e'mail adress in google search site, and it interested me to tell you about my problem. I would like to know you better if it may please you to explain me about your self . it dosn't matter how old you are . it dons't mater if you are a man or a woman i just need a help from foreign country if you will be interesting to help me
My dear my point of this message is that my familly relation are treating me too bad since my perent died and left me alone .they have take away all my fathers proparty from me. and now they have discover that my father have account with amount of (6 millions dollars us) in the BANK COMMERCIAL OF BURKINA BCB they have stated again to forcing me to go and take the ducment from my fathers lawyer .so my father lawyer is the one that advice me to look for some one i can thrust so that he can claim the money for me because i can not claim it because of my age. and is good to look some one from foreign country to avoid gouverment problem
PLEASE DO WELL TO REPLY ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IF YOU WILL LIKE TO HELP ME THEM I WILL GIVE YOU MY FATHER LAWYER ADRESS .HE IS THE ONE THAT NOES VERY WELL AND HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO AND YOU MAY TELL HIM YOUR CONDITION . PLEASE TRY TO UNDASTAND MY ENGLISH .I AM NOT GOOD IN ENGLISH BUT FRENCH THANKS
FROM. JOMBO JAMA
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