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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.
- remittancedeptsgfund@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Amina J. Mohammed" <issifounabil4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: remittancedeptsgfund@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:50:25 +0100
Subject: Sorry For Late Contact
Attention Beneficiary…
This is to officially inform you that we have been having meetings for
the past two weeks
which ended Two days ago with the world bank president and other seven
continent presidents on the congress, we
Treated on solution to the scam victim problems.Finally, The United
Nations have agreed
to compensate with the total sum of ($ 2.5 US Dollars)two million five
hundred dollars)
This compensation includes the international business that failed due
to government
problems etc. We have scheduled your payment through (ATM CARD) which
is the latest
instruction from the world bank president for security purpose.You are
required to urgently
contact the Payment Center for further instruction, Kindly, Contact
the email & phone
number as listed below.
Contact Person: Dr. Terrell Raymond
Position: Payment Co-ordinator
Email: (remittancedeptsgfund@gmail.com )
Please note that any other action ontrary to this instruction is at
your own risk, We
apologize if you may received this message in your spam due to the
current network
failure. Thanks & remain bless!
Best & Regards,
Amina J. Mohammed. (Deputy Secretary-
General)United Nations Organization.
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