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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.
- 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 mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +448719156478 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
- 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.
- dbrown5870@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- send the below informationˇ¦s to us via this e-mail: dbrown5870@gmail.com, award5870@gmail.com for your payment processing. full (Gmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: award5870@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:00:52 +0800 (CST)
Subject: GOOGLE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
Google Incorporations.
Belgrave House 76
Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 9TQ
United Kingdom.
Tel No: +448719156478
Fax: +448447744946
DEAR BENEFICIARY
Your e-mail ID has won you 950,000.00(Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds) and a Compaq Laptop (Hp Presario CQ56) from Google Empowerment Program, To Receive Your Prize Send the below Information¡¦s To Us via This
E-mail: dbrown5870@gmail.com, award5870@gmail.com
for Your Payment Processing.
Full Name:
Address:
Mobile Number:
State:
Country:
Occupation:
Scanned Copy ID Proof:
NOTICE: The Google Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claims discovered by the Award Board will result to forfeiting of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the Double claimer about the prize. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until your prize is delivered to you at your door step.
Congratulations
Regards,
Mr. David Brown
Payment Officer.
GOOGLE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
Tel No: +448719156478
NOTE: If You Receive This Message In Your Junk or Spam Its Due to Your Internet Provider
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