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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- 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.
- robertineanderson777@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Mac Jonathan Adams <macjonathanadams05@gmail.com>
Reply-To: robertineanderson777@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:29:05 +0000
Subject: Dr. Ms.Robertine Anderson
We proudly bring to your notice the results of United Nation online draws
Lucky Day international email online Lottery program conducted on Friday
18th October 2019 and the results were release today for payment. Your
email address have been selected as the second category winner in our
online draws done via computer ballot system, there were no tickets
purchased either.
Your email address was selected from the World Wide Web and was attached to
your winning Reference Number NL007KB/0AH3-Y0/17, Batch Number
YGH601-NLS/01ZB and Tag Rank W501/JKD-VGF01. You have been awarded a lump
sum payout of $750,000 USD (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand USD Only),
which is the winning payout for 2nd category winner in the online draws. In
your best interest, we request that you should keep the entire details of
your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring
your claims has been completed.
This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds. In
pursuant to your prize collection. You are urgently advice to kindly
contact your online fiduciary agent Dr. Ms.Robertine Anderson via contact
email address below with your Batch Number and your winning Reference
Number and Tag Rank for immediate release of your inheritance fund from
payment bank as rightful beneficiary.
Contact Person: Dr. Ms.Robertine Anderson
E-mail Address: robertineanderson777@gmail.com
You are advice to keep your winning particulars strictly confidential to
avoid anything that will lead to cancellation of your payment from the
payment bank or incase double claim. Congratulations once again.
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