419 Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam (2006-01)

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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.
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.
- savethechildren.secretary@usa.com (Outblaze.com, Hong Kong; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- conference secretariat via email:savethechildren.secretary@usa.com or savethechildren.secretary@doctor.com as soon as possible. (Usa; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: "Ms,Sharon" <rottex67@gmail.com>
Reply-To: sharon.savedechildren@californiamail.com
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 19:45:07 +0000
Subject: SAVE THE CHILDREN/SCHOOL GIRLS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INVITATION
USA 2014.

--
Dear Colleague,

On behalf of Save the children organization USA, It is a great
privilege for us to invite you to international conference meeting on
war affected Children/Child abuse.

The aims of the conference are to bring together researchers and
practitioners in an effort to lay the ground work for future
collaborative research, advocacy, and program development as well as
to educate social service, health care, and criminal justice
professionals on human trafficking and the needs and risks of those
victimized by war and commercial sex industry and to deliberate on how
to abolish the abduction of school girls in Nigeria and some other
parts of Africa/rest of the world. Also to encourage our boys and
girls to acquire sound education and to help correct the impression
that "western education is sinful in the lives of our children" said
by Boko Haram leader in Nigeria.

The global Congress meeting against Child abuse and war-affected
children is scheduled to take place from JULY 21ST - 25TH JULY 2014 in
Chicago the United States and in Dakar-Senegal, from JULY 28TH - 1ST
AUG 2014.

Note that all interested delegates that requires entry visa to enter
the United States to attend this meeting will be assisted by the
organization, in obtaining the visa in their passport. Free air round
trip tickets to attend this meeting will be provided to all
participants. The Workshop welcomes paper presentation from any
interested participants willing to present papers during the meeting.

If you are interested in attending and for fast respond contact the
Save the children organization conference secretariat via
email:savethechildren.secretary@usa.com or
savethechildren.secretary@doctor.com as soon as possible. Please share
the information with your colleagues.

Sincerely,
Ms Sharon Christopher
(PhD) Activities Coordinator
Save the Children Organization
Email:sharon.savedechildren@californiamail.com

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