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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: "Eurocontrol Invoices" <r3crco@euro-control-int.org>
Reply-To: l.karachenkov_eurocontrol@live.com
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 03:11:49 +0600 (BDT)
Subject: Re: EUROCONTROL PAYMENT/Swift Confirmation
Attention Accounts Payable.
Dear Esteemed Customers,
Please forward urgently, the swift confirmation of payments made against
the July, August and September 2013 ,Invoices to us for verification and
updates.we have not received your payments for these months stated . the
invoices are with respect to air navigation services sent to you from the
Central Routes charges Office of Eurocontrol.
Note also that we have made some changes in our payment and banking
details. this will be communicated to you as soon as we are through with
our verifications and updates. sorry for the inconveniences.
Thanks for your cooperation.
my best regards
Lina Kurachenkov
Collection of Charges
Central Route Charges Office
EUROCONTROL
96 Rue de la Fusee
1130 Brussels
BELGIUM
Email: r4.crco@eurocontrol-int.org
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