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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 message is a next of kin scam.
- 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.
- sumbre@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Sumbre R Jimmy <rajojo61@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:58:51 -0400
Subject: Urgent
​​Dear
l am Sumbre Jimmy, a banker by profession from Accra Ghana
in West Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and
Accounting unit of the bank. It's my urgent need for a foreign partner
that made me to contact you for this business. I have the opportunity of
transferring the left over funds (US$11.5M) of one of my bank clients
who died along with his entire family on 31 July 2000 in a plane crash.
You can confirm the genuineness of the deceased death by clicking on
this website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
I
need a foreign partner who will support me because l can not claim this
money alone without a foreign partner since the deceased client (the
owner of the fund) was a foreigner.
This fund (US$11.5Million)
will be shared between us in the ratio of 60/40. I agreed that 40% of
this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign
account while 60% will be for me and I want to assure you that this
transaction is absolutely legal and risk free since l work in this bank
and l have all the necessary information that might be needed. Before we
proceed, l would like to know your ability to handle this over there in
your country.
Please tell me more about the political/economic
stability/monetary policy of your country. I need to know all these
because l don't want to have problem with the Government of your
country.
Kindly update me with the following information because l
want to know you more before we proceed on this transaction. Hope you
will understand the importance of this request.
1. Your full name........................
2. Your age/sex ..........................
3. your occupation ................
4. Your residential address ..................
5. Your nationality ..............
6. Your private phone number ..................
7. Your fax number ...................
I will be waiting for your response. Thanks for your understanding. Have a great day. Reply to (sumbre@hotmail.com)
Yours.
Sumbre Jimmy
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