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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: good good <paboboo1968@gmail.com>
Reply-To: paboboo1968@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:55:10 +0100
Subject: YOUR HELP NEEDED PLEASE
Dear sir,
I am writing you this mail with my eyes full of tears and sorrow
because of the way we Christians are being killed by Islamic Terrorist
Group(BOKO HARAM)here in West Africa.My father was killed by the Boko
Haram terrorist group. See this
http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-borno-state-attacks/2834003.html.
My father was a great farmer and gold merchant.My uncles after the
death of my father seized all my father's properties and sacked I and
my mother out of the family house.
My father made a deposit of USD6.8 million in one of the neighboring
countries which is unknown to my wicked uncles.My mother is afraid to
invest the fund here because my uncles will want to take everything
again from my mother.Hence,my mother decide that the money be moved
outside our country.
We contacted you so that you will assist us receive the fund in your
account and also help us come over to your country to invest the fund.
Please you have to help us as soon as possible before my wicked uncles
kill my mother because I do not want to be an orphan at my age,17
years.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
John Bruno(Junior)
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