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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.
- This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +22572745237 (Cote d'Ivoire, probably a prepaid mobile phone)
Fraud email example:
From: "moulaye ezzedine" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <m4136090@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:37:14 -0500
Subject: Re:Good Morning
Hello Dear
The reason I contacted you is about one of our deceased customers who was an investor with our bank. In 2005 he came to our bank here to deposit some of $30 Million and that was the last time we heard from him. I did everything humanly
possible to track him down all to no avail, and since he listed no next of kin in his bio-data form I have no one to contact. It was a few years after his surprise disappearance that I stumbled upon the plane crash manifest where I discovered he actually died on 4th November 2010 in an ATR-72-212 plane crash in Cuba. Now the bank wants to revert the funds back into our treasury as unclaimed funds and abandoned monies inline with our bank policy.
What need to be done now is for me to insert your name from our system into his file as the heir and successor to the fund once that is done the money automatically become yours by the right of inheritance, then we follow our bank inheritance claim procedures secure the funds,
prove your right to the funds, and have the funds release to you as the rightful and legal beneficiary. and we shred 50% 50% including the expense.
Yours sincerely,
Ms Lala Moulaye Ezzedine
Administration Manager
WhatsApp +225 72745237
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