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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.
- ashabasociates@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: SgtSaifullah Khan Saifullah <info@ioesa.com.mx>
Reply-To: <ashabasociates@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:02:19 -0700
Subject: PLEASE URGENT
I am seeking your assistance to evacuate the sum
of $25 million (Twenty five Million U.S Dollars)
to the States or any safe country, as far as I
can be assured that it will be safe in your care
until I complete my service here.
This is no stolen money and there are no dangers
involved.
SOURCE OF MONEY:
Some money in various currencies was discovered
and concealed in barrels with piles of weapons
and ammunition at a location near one of Saddam
Hussein's old Presidential Palaces during a
rescue operation and it was agreed by all party
present that the money be shared amongst us.
Click this link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.s
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This might appear as an illegal thing to do but
I tell you what?No compensation can make up for
the risks we have taken with our lives in this
hellhole. The above figure was given to me as my
share and to conceal this kind of money became a
problem for me, so with the help of a British
contact working with the UN here (his office
enjoys some immunity)I was
able to get the package out to a safe location
entirely out of trouble spot. He does not know
the real contents of the package as he believes
that it belongs to an American who died in an
air raid, who before giving up trusted me to
hand over the package to his close relative. I
have now found a secured way of getting the
package out of Afghanistan for you to pick up. I
do not know for how long I will remain here, as
I have been lucky to survive 2 suicide bomb
attacks by Pure Divine intervention.
This and other reasons put into consideration
have prompted me to reach out for help. If it
might be of interest to you then Endeavor to
contact me and we would work out the necessary
formalities but I pray that you are discreet
about this mutually benefiting relationship.PLS
get back to me on my email ashabasociates@gmail.com)
Respectfully,
SgtSaifullah Khan Saifullah
ashabasociates@gmail.com
US ARMY
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