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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 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!
Fraud email example:
From: Octavian <mooresuite@gmail.com>
Reply-To: octavian.z@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 09:47:35 +0000
Subject: congratulation !!!
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Batch Ref: WSP/07-43658
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Hundred
And Ninety Seven Thousand, Five hundred USD ( $ 197,500 USD) for the
2019 WhatsApp Prize Promotion.
! WhatsApp collects all phone contacts registered of the people that
are active, among the millions that subscribed to and few from other
providers. 100 people are selected this month to benefit from it and
you are one of the selected winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance an must be claimed not later than
15 days from date of draw notification. Any prize not claimed within
this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your winning identification details:
Batch Number: WSP/07-43658
Reference Number: 2007234522
Kindly send below details to enable us proceed the payment of your
prize cliam in accordance.
Full name.
Contact address
Telephone
Date of birth
Congratulation once again !!!
Mr Octavian
Ph. (850) 665 0865
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