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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: Landon Elijah <haywardalfredwilliam@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs.luarabandon@tutanota.com
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 03:48:15 -0600
Subject: Good News
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National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators | A Network
of the National Association of State easurers More than $300 Million
in pension benefits is currently owed to more than 30,000
people,according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. Benefits may go
unclaimed because an employee is unaware they had accrued retirement
benefits at a previous job.
The majority of funds are held by sates (roughly $47.1 Billion)
according to the National Association of Unclaimed Property
Administrators. Under Varying state laws, financial institutions and
other companies are required to turn over any funds considered
abandoned.Another $800 million in lottery prizes also have gone
unclaimed.
The United states president has inform us the National Association of
Unclaimed Property Administrators | A Network of the National
Association of State Treasurers, to use this fund to compensate people
for the Covid 19 lost and we have started the compensation program on
3rd Of August 2020 your email address is one of the lucky winner.
All we required from you is to contact the agent in charge of the
compensation fund which is Mrs.Laura Brandon for the release of your
compensation funds.
Thanks Yours
Landon Elijah
National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators
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