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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: Samia Alabasi <info@smelectronics.in>
Reply-To: samialabasi@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:24:02 +0800
Subject: Re: Order confirmation
Download =
1 Attached file | 34KB
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Purchase Order.pdf =
Download =
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Dear Sir,
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Thanks for your urgent response and we do hope we can establish long term =
business relationship with your company. I have gone through your E- catalo=
gue and have noted your various brands/models and I can say they meet our r=
equired standard. =
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However, we would like the goods to carry our company brand logo in the pac=
kaging thereby making it exclusively our special products. =
Attached above in our purchase order portal are the sample pictures of the=
models/brands we have selected and quantity we need with our company brand=
logo.
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Pls go through the selected items and get back to us as asap with your bes=
t price quotation as we want to receive this order by first week of next mo=
nth.
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Regards
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Samia Alabasi
Purchase manager,
Gulf Merchant LLC, =
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