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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.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
This email message is a "New Partner from Paraguay" scam.
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.
- friancischarles96@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: admin <admin@localhost.vps.com>
Reply-To: friancischarles96@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:03:15 +0530
Subject: Hello My Dear contact my account officer

Hello My Dear, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those
funds transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Venezuela
South America.Presently i am in Caracas Venezuela for investment
projects with my own share of the total sum. meanwhile,i didn't forget
your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring those funds
despite that it failed us some how.

Now contact my account officer in Manchester United Kingdom his Name is
Mr.Francis Charles on EMAIL: friancischarles96@gmail.com .ask him to
send you the total of $970,000.00(Nine hundred and Seventy Thousand
United State dollars) which i kept for your compensation for all the
past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.I appreciated your
efforts at that time very much. so feel free and get in touched with my
account officer Mr.Francis and instruct him where to send the amount to
you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share
the joy after all the sufferness at that time. in the moment, I'm very
busy here because of the investment projects which me and the new
partner are having at hand, finally, remember that I had forwarded
instruction to the account officer on your behalf to receive that money,
so feel free to get in touch with Mr.Francis Charles, he will send the
amount to you without any delay Thanks

Regards,
Mr.James Smith.

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