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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "i will like you to " (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "huge amount of money" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- 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.
- gregloyd.dfrc@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mr. Greg Lloyd - Dfrc" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gregloyd.dfrc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:49:03 +0100
Subject: Diamond Fund Recreating Company
Diamond Fund Recreating Company
Unit 320
Nedbank Building
Commissioner Street
Johannesburg 2000
South Africa
Good day,
My Name is Mr. Greg Lloyd, I am the CEO of Diamond Fund Recreating Company in Johannesburg South Africa. I am contacting you today because of a file with our company and this I will explain to you in few details.
In 2001 a client came to our company for investment purpose, she invested some amount of money with the company and after the first 5 investment years we lost contact with her as she stopped calling and visiting the company. We have tried all means to contact her and even sent representatives to her country of origin to look for her at the address provided in her file but then found out that she died in a motor accident in 2007 and we tried to contact any of her relative but to no avail and since 2007 till date we have not been able to locate any body that is related to her.
This matter has now reached the South African treasury department and they have told us that if by December 2014 we are not able to contact any of her beneficiary the money will be taken into the South African Treasury department account whereby making it a South African property.
Due to this I have been looking for someone to assist me in relocating this money out of South Africa to another country for business purposes as it will not be nice if this money goes into the South Africa account and this is why I have contacted you. I was searching through the internet and came across your information and decided to contact you because you basically bear the same last name as my client.
The investment amount has now accumulated interest since 2001 and its now up to the sum of Nineteen Million United States Dollars and I really cannot just allow the Treasury department to claim this money and this is a huge amount of money and can be used for better things.
I want to present you as the beneficiary to this fund and I will make all documentation available with also the help of my lawyer to back-up the claim so that we can use this money for investment and also to help lives. I will like you to call me or reply to my email so we can have a better discussion to this regards and I can provide you with more information.
I await your reply and thanks for reading my email.
Best Regards,
Mr. Greg Lloyd
Diamond Fund Recreating Company
Unit 320
Nedbank Building
Commissioner Street
Johannesburg 2000
South Africa
Email: gregloyd.dfrc@gmail.com
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