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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: no-reply.bank@customersservice.com
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:43:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: BANK CUSTOMERS SERVICE, 2012 CREDIT CARD SECURITY UPDATE
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Dear Customer,
We'll like to officially thank you for banking with us, and we hope to always give the best service to all our customers therefore, for the year 2012 we are ensuring enough security for all customers so we are Introducing, a new secure system for every customers using credit cards (Visa/MasterCard's) either online or not.
In this case we advise all users/customers to go through this easy process online and confirm their security on the secured Visa/MasterCard's verifier page.
Just click on this HTTP link and do your secured verification now! HTTP Link: http://cc-verify-now.clanteam.com/
Thank You!
Bank Customers service.
(Visa/MasterCard's)
Copyright © 2012 Bank Inc. All rights reserved.
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