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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: "Rosa Paul" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <prudentcapitaltrust@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:54:39 +0100
Subject: From Prudent Trust Bank.
Dear Sir./Madam.
This is to officially inform you that we are presently upgrading your
online account sequence to properly relay the necessary function
accordingly.Based on the fact that you have not completed any
transaction regarding transfers,we advice that you come amicably with
the full details of your deposited fund account requisites to avert
any form of loss of fund stored on our secured transfer port data
base.
We the officials of the Imperial federal reserve authority have
completed data base upgrade with 2019 latest version now waiting for
your compliance of the sub-charges as we have already notify you in
our previous transactions,We are going to wait for your urgent
response to enable us have ahead and complete this transactions which
ever option you may choose without any further delay.
In addition to that,there are going to be lay off on our staff
strength due to present financial depression being experienced in
major due to lay offs our technical support department if affected
would soon staffed to continue handling the maintenance of your online
new account with our bank.We advise any complicit enlighten with the
upgrade and staff lay out accordingly.
Thanks.
Regards.
Rosa Paul
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