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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: mary@ens.cablered.com.mx
Reply-To: biaqip@fotoplenka.ru
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:25:54 -0700
Subject: Re: RE: Urgent From Bia Bank
>From Desk of the Director Foreign
Remittance Bia Bank,
No 12 Tinubu Square Benin
E-Mail: bia.qip@fotoplenka.ru
Hello,
We email to know the reason why you want to leave your compensation fund
worth’s of $4.2M USD in our bank. We communicated with you in the past but
at a sudden you ignore our mails, we don't know the reason why. If you are
OK and alive let us know because one Adam Latif Mohamed which identified
himself as your uncle contacted us through mail in respect to that your
fund and told us to transfer it to this account number(0026542138) because
you was no more.
These mail is to verify what he told us that is the reason we wrote
through the email address we have be communicating in the past, if what he
shipped to us is truth we want any relation of this family to confirmed to
us now. We are waiting for the urgent mail to rectify and finalize this
transfer Immediately.
Mr.Donald Chima
DFR Bia Bank
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