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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.
- 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.
- mrsanette77@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Grace <francadon26@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Grace <mrsanette77@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:08:34 +0100 (BST)
Subject: hello
Hello! How are you? I hope your day is blessed. My name is Grace Annette from London, UK. I work in a Gold & Diamond company where i am also the assistant marketer. I saw your email in a social link as i was searching for a trusted foreign friend and I picked interest to share a business proposal with you.
My company urgently need a product that is used for cleaning raw Gold stones and Diamonds, The product is no more available in the Europe market but on my research, I found a company that is selling the product at a lower cost but i don't want my company to know about it. Please I would like you to handle the contract of supplying the product to my company at a higher cost and we could make good profits in the supply.
I will give you more details about this business as soon as you show interest. Thanks
Best regards
Grace
mrsanette77@yahoo.co.uk
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