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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.
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- 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.
- vanyblaise556@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: vany blaise sawadogo <eseiyoha48@gmail.com>
Reply-To: vanyblaise556@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 15:10:09 +0100
Subject: Peace be with you and your family
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Hi
Peace be with you and your family
before going forward let me start with introducing myself, my name is
miss vany blaise sawadogo and am an orphan and only child of my late
parents, I lost both of my parents in a car accident in 2014 my dad
was one of the biggest staff in semafo gold mining company in his days
and my mom was a business woman and we are from Burkina Faso
And my main reason of contacting you is that I want your help in
claiming of my late parent fund
during my Dad time of working in the gold mining company he was able
to save up gold’s Walt more than $100 million us dollar's with credit
bond finance and security company and due to the amount I want a
trusted foreign partner who could help claim the fund into his or her
account and after successful claiming of the fund into your account
, our agreement is you are %60 and me %40 and am doing this because I
don't have anyone to help me and also am too young to handle such an
amount so if you agree with the agreement of share you could get back
to me and I will send you the deposit certificate and also a form to
fill with the email address of the security company to contact them
with and below is the website of the company you can go through it and
I will be very glad to have you as my partner
website : creditbondbsfbankings.simplesite.com
vanyblaise556@yahoo.com
thanks a lot from yours faithful vany
vany blaise sawadogo
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