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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- 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.
- europmillionloto200@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: <alert008@DeliveryDepartment.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <europmillionloto200@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:40:41 +0530
Subject: RE: CONFIRM YOUR DETAILS.
WINNING NUMBER Friday 29th November2013 :21 78 35 42 43 8 10
MONTH OF DECEMBER 2013 EURO MILLION LOTTERY ONLINE,YOU WON THE SUM OF (ONE MILLION EURO)1,000,000.00 EUROS FROM EURO MILLION LOTTERY ONLINE AND GAMING CORPORATION. ALL THE WINNING TICKETS WAS SELECTED FROM A DATA BASE OF INTERNET E-MAIL USERS,FROM WHICH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS CAME OUT AS THE WINNING COUPON. WE THEREBY CONTACT YOU TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING AMOUNT QUICKLY AS THIS IS A MONTHLY LOTTERY. FAILURE TO CLAIM YOUR WIN WILL RESULT INTO THE REVERSION OF THE WINNING PRIZE TO OUR FOLLOWING MONTH LOTTERY.(EXPIRING DATE, 30TH DECEMBER 2013).PLEASE CONTACT OUR APPROVED AGENT FOR YOUR REGION WITH YOUR WINNING NUMBER.DIRECTOR OF WINNING CLAIMS DEPARTMENT. TO CLAIM FILL OUT THE FORM.
1.FULL NAMES:.................
2.ADDRESS:....................
3.AGE:........................
4.MOBILE NUMBER & ALTERNATE MOBILE NUMBERS:.......
5.PERSONAL WINNING EMAIL:.....
6.COUNTRY:....................
7.OCCUPATION:.................
8.NATIONALITY:................
9.SCANNED COPY OF IDENTITY PROOF(MANDATORY).
10.SCANNED COPY OF ADDRESS PROOF(MANDATORY)
Mr. Harry Samuel
0033-751-034-787
E MAIL: europmillionloto200@gmail.com
TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM YOU ARE TO KEEP YOUR WINNING TO YOURSELF.
Hope I have informed you correctly.
Ms. Jenifer Cole.
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