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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.
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- andrecephas1@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: "NIJA HACKER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <andrecephas1@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:02:46 -0500
Subject: Email links,SMTP,Webmails,Bank logins for sale
I be Nija guy wey dey hsell tools for men. I dey romania and learnt my hacking and spamming here.
I dey sell emails for worldwide databbase/all arabs/all asia/all usa countinent/ middle east and all uk... i
f u buy emails i blast for u with rdp instant delevery smtp....i give smtp or webmail free if u buy emails leads
i dey sell alibaba/epay/payday/skype/ dating site user name and password.
i dey sell lawyers/bankers/deaf/farmers/gold diamond buyers and sellers/foreign beneficiarry/j
ob seekers/women seeking for men and men seeking for men leads/ next of kin/car sellers/property angent/loans emails leads addressess .
i dey sell rdp/mailer/webmail/multi ams software..domain smtp/ip smtp/user name and password/
yahoo scanpage/gmail scanpage/hotmail scanpage/all webmail and cpanel scanpage/host from
admin scanpage user name and password/vpn/sock acount/bank all scampage...
contact me on my yahoo Id so that we go chat wella.
MY YAHOO ID BE andrecephas1@yahoo.com
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