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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:
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- 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.
- mribrahimmagu9n684@citromail.hu (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "MR.ABDULRASHEED BAWA" <mrabdulrasheedbawamrabdulrashe@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mribrahimmagu9n684@citromail.hu
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:29:07 -0800
Subject: FROM ATTN FROM EFCC
Attn:
I am Mr ABDULRASHEED BAWA, the Chairman of Economic and Financial
Crime Commission in Nigeria. i want to use this medium to find out if
you lost any money through internet scammers any where in this world.
am in Cottoned Benin Republic, searching for those scammers.
$10,000000 was set aside by the Government to pay the scam victims.
So if you lost any money kindly indicate by writing down your details
on the gaps below. Once you drop your details and we confirm it, we
will finalize your
transactions back to you immediately within few days. Sorry for
contacting you back again because we lost the lady that is in charge
of the email we use in contacting you before so get back to us through
this email below with your details to enable us to
arrange your payment
First Name :......................................
Country:...........................................
City:..................................................
Tel: .....................................................
Sex :........................................................
Age: ........................................................
ID: ............................................................
(mribrahimmagu9n684@citromail.hu)
Yours Sincerely
MR.ABDULRASHEED BAWA
ATTN FROM EFCC
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