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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: "Mrs.Daniel Marry" <smrs.dawson@yahoo.in>
Reply-To: "Mrs.Daniel Marry" <info.cbb@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:36:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Attention This is to notified you that due to the meeting held
under the instruction of the Ministry Of Finance Head office Benin
Republic, we come to realized that you did not receive your fund total sum
of $8.700,000.00 usd[ Eight Million Seven Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars since as result of unfaithful and selfish officer's who want to use
you as their source of making money. The approval was granted this
yesterday by the appropriate department, State below is the detail
information of th
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