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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 fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- 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.
- walterhamatombank@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mrs. Anne Macrun" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <walterhamatombank@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:56:13 +0100
Subject: YOUR CLAIM PRIZE==
Good Day!
Your email address has been selected as one of the lucky winners in the second batch of the on going Google 15th Anniversary Award as organized by Google United Kingdom branch office in DURHAM LONDON. Therefore? You have been awarded the sum of One Million Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars (US$1,850,000.00) .
See below how to claim your prize.
Details of the Prize
BATCH NUMBER: YPB/08/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: YPN560992011
Send the following information below:
NAME:
AGE:
GENDER:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY:
TELEPHONE:
FAX NUMBER:
EMAIL ID:
PLEASE NOTE THAT A COPY OF YOUR PASSPORT OR YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE IS NEEDED WHILE SENDING YOUR INFORMATION:
This promotion was set-up to encourage the active usage of the Internet Explorer® GOOGLE Page. we do believe that with your prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Internet Explorer® GOOGLE Page.
TO FILE FOR YOUR CLAIM...
Contact The Processing Manager:
Mr Walter Hama
Email: walterhamatombank@gmail.com
My Direct Private Phone+44- 745-205-7102 (Inside-outside of The UK.)
The Google Lottery Promotion team congratulates you once again on your prize.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Anne Macrun
AKLEY HEADS DURHAM DH1 5TS LONDON
(Google Management.)
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