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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:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- 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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million pounds" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "deadline" (scammers rush victims so they don't have time to think properly)
- This email message is a next of kin scam.
- 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.
- joycebill948@yahoo.de (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Bill Joyce E." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <joycebill948@yahoo.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:03:50 +0200
Subject: deal
With due respect to your person, I kindly wish to ask for yourattention and Consideration just for a while. I know this is certainly not the appropriate Channel to contact you but situation necessitatedthis medium. However, I am sincerely sorry for any inconveniency this may cost you. I am a senior staff of A BANK IN UK, and I have a business opportunity to propose to you which wouldbe of mutual benefit to both parties if carefully executed. I am the account officer and personal friend to William Wise who died in theJuly 2005 London bomb blast. William Wise was a good client of my bank, before he was killed in the 2005 London bomb blast he howeverhas a deposit of Seven million Five hundred thousand pounds (7.5Million pounds) with the bank and his family are not aware of this particular account due to the perennial crisis in his marital life. As his close confidant and an account officer he warned me on the implication of letting any member of his family have knowledge of hi!
s deposit with
our bank. For more details and confirmation please try and visit this site below forclarification.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4738131.stm
Based on this facts i want your cooperation to claim this money for our own personal use. All I need to do is to presentyou as the partner and next of kin to the deceased. The bank would transfer the funds to you as the beneficiary and we will both benefit, Please note the urgency in this transaction and respond swiftly so that we can beat their deadline. Please have no fear for I assure you that all relevant documents needed to make this deal successful shall
be forwarded to you as soon as I receive a positive response from you.
Note that we need collective effort to make this deal successful.
I believe strongly that if we both put our minds together, it would be of mutual benefit to you and i. Please respond quickly
if interested via my private email: :joycebill948@yahoo.de
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