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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: Department of External Affairs <frednoukou@honigroup.nl>
Reply-To: <frednoukou@live.fr>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:06:12 -0700
Subject: Attention From The Government
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Attention:
My name is NOUKOU Fredi from Benin Ministry of Foreign Affairs, am
sending
you this mail on behalf of Benin Government , It come to the Notice of
Benin Government that some of the citizen are involve in SCAM and the
government is trying their possible best to stop scam in Benin as it
has
brought about a lot of scandals and dents to the innocent entities of
Benin
Republic, to this effect, The Government hereby have decided to award
some
Victim that have been scammed.
I contact you because your email address was found in our data as one
of
the emails that should be compensated with the sum of $450,000.00 USD.
Please send me the following information's to my email address
frednoukou@live.fr
1. Receiver's Full Name: ………………………….
2. Receiver's Address:…………………………….
3. Receiver's Country: ……………………………..
4. Receiver's Telephone Number: ……………
5. Receiver's Occupation:…………………………..
with the requested data we can commence the facilitation of your funds
transfer to you.
Best Regards.
NOUKOU Fredi
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