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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.
- deninmorrybank1@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Denin Morry
Reply-To: <deninmorry12@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:47:21 -0600
Subject: My Office needs your Attention.
Hey dear,
Good day and compliments ...
Please I wanted to connect with you because i was struck by your name
as i came across it today and after some verification, it appear to me
that you may have related to late Engineer Valnizia, a civil Engineer
and a client of my bank who died in a plane clash along side his wife
in 2009.Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447). There is a trace of
family connection between you and this late client based on your name.
... Am not sure if you are aware of this. Therefore i have some hidden
secret to reveal to you about this man's death in connection with your
name because you stand the chance to inherit his millions of dollars
unclaimed deposit here in my bank as his relative/Next-of-kin as no
one have ever come up to claim the fund long after his death. ...
This is a secret and it may be hard for you to understand. So let
discuss it so i can explain better. ... Do kindly reply back with your
full contact names and contact adress to enable me make a more
thorough verification through my office data base before my detail
reply and feed back to you. My alternative email is;
deninmorrybank1@gmail.com
NB; Send your reply with your full contact names.
Thanks and best regards
Denin Morry
LONDON
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