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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.
- eckobankbeninrepublic133@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: DR DAVID MOKWES <barresigiankatia@alice.it>
Reply-To: eckobankbeninrepublic133@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 00:38:55 +0100 (CET)
Subject: CONTACT ECKO-BANK FOR YOUR $11.5MILLION ONLCONTACT ECKO-BANK FOR
YOUR $11.5MILLION ONLINETRANSFERINETRANSFER
We are writing to you now due to difficulty in transferring and receiving the
$11,5 MILLION USD $5,000 per a day to your destination, we decided to
transfer the total fund to our Off-shore foreign remittance ECO- BANK
so that you will register online bank account with them which they
will get back to you within
24 hours with your online bank account number and password to start
transferring the whole fund online to your personal bank account over
there in your country.
TO REGISTER WITH ECO- BANK ONLINE Please do get back to me for
register of your online account notification with ECO- BANK which your
account # and password will send to you within 24 hours to enable you
start transferring the total sum of $11,5 MILLION USD online to your
personal bank account by your self over there in your country.
Immediately you respond to my email. we will send you the register
details,
Sincerely
Mr. David Mokwes,
Call; office number+22998541272
eckobankbeninrepublic133@gmail.com
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