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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 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.
- agentcurtisandersonn@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Dr Leon Cheng" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agentcurtisandersonn@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:09:11 +1100
Subject: Instructions from United Nations Asia Division Office.
Attention:
Instructions from United Nations Asia Division Office.
I want you to know that this is in no way a scam and note that i have been following your dealing on the internet and i am very much aware of the fact that you have had dealing with several scammers and you lost more than $1000 in the process and still did not receive your fund.
Be informed that the Nigerian Government has reached an agreement with the United State Government and an FBI agent has been assigned the position of making sure that fund belonging to foreign beneficiaries is been transfered to them without any delay and the agreement also states that the Transfer charge will be deducted from the total amount in the account.
Below is the contact details of the FBI agent for you to contact him in other for your fund to be transfered proper to you after all this years.
Agent Name:Mr.Anderson Curtis
Email:agentcurtisandersonn@gmail.com
Waiting for your response.
Regards,
Dr Leon Cheng.
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