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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "will come to you as a surprise" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "Annas Burgis" <burgiannas483@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: annasburgis@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 10:54:39 -0000
Subject: Giving you this with all good faith please
If Only we can work with one mid its could have been good.And i do know that
this will come to you as a surprise Please you settle down and read my
mail please, See as a matter of fact I am Mr Annas Burgi I am from Angola in
Africa but I have here situation that I am facing here which I thing we may
handle together if you do not mind listing carefully and read it to we
understood we where living in Libya with my father and my mummy too,
But there was a little war over there and that made me to lost my parents
after just for the case of the Libya Late president Mama Gaddafi who was
killed by the army of Libya Government with some other together with my Late
father And my father was on the way to move away out of Libya before he was
captured and resulted to be slotted by the
Government Army of Libya But now I seceded in moving to UK thank in London
where I am for now contacting you with this email, already he has told me
about some amount of money he removed from the Government and put down on my
name the Sum of 7. million five hundred thousand u.s.a Dollar, So I will like
to see as I am contacting you now if you may be of help to where I can
invested the
money in any of the good country without people knowing that this money
belonging to me or the business in question belonging to me as well And you
shall be welcomed for the real deal I will come over to meet you fist so that
we can talk and know what to be done okay I thank you to whom it maybe God
bless you. My Name is Annas Burgis Please keep this secret till i have come to
you, just for i an you security okay, may the lord help us in all ways.
And Iwill like us ti have a meeting some where before we may started any
transaction if you do not mind
please pray for me for God giading
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