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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: "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <murphygray01@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:18:38 -0000
Subject: PAY BACK FROM THE US GOVERNMENT
We are in collaboration with one of our leading banks to pay you back every dime you have spent trying to get your fund.The fraudsters have taken advantage of you and we are here to refund you every penny spent.
You were asked to provide some documents which you never did.On this note you are quickly advised to login into our secured site with this your email information confirming that you are still intrested and that you do not plan to use the fund to sponsor terrorism.
You are hereby advised to login into the below web page with this your email and every of your email you were written to and with the exact password to gain access and to confirm you were the one scammed.You must also make sure you use your exact email information to login and then you would be able to confirm when your fund will finally get to you.
http://businessandpower.com/chasebank/chasebank/chaseindex.php
Make sure you copy and paste or click on the link above with your correct email information so that you can for once get your fund.You are also not to spend one dime on this transaction ever again so go ahead and login to confirm it was this your email that you were scammed from.
Thanks and God Bless,
General Murphy Gray
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