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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: National Lottery <noreply@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dr.carlthomas@live.com
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:06:53 +0200
Subject: Congratulations
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Wednesday 18th Jul 2012,Draw no.1729 Winning numbers 06 08 16 35 47 49 BONUS 40
Attn: Email Account Owner,
Your e-mail ID has won you the £750,524.00 GBP grand prize from THE NATIONAL
LOTTERY Charity Bonanza, held on Wednesday July 18th,Draw no.1729 Winning
numbers 06 08 16 35 47 49 BONUS 40 which brought
out your E-mail address from the World Wide Web (Internet and Web
InformationSystems (WWW) Data Base and Qualified you a bonafide winner of the
statedwinning amount.
Contact Dr. Carl Thomas via e-mail ;dr.carlthomas@live.com
Name===Country of Origin==Present location/Address===Mobile
No.===Age====Sex===Occupation
CONGRATULATION.
NB: You can follow this link to view your resulst: https://www.national-
lottery.co.uk/player/p/results.ftl
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