419 scam: "WEBMAIL UPGRADE TEAM"<admin@upgrade.com> ATTENTION WEBMAIL USER.

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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.
- onlineuser2010@mail2webmaster.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "WEBMAIL UPGRADE TEAM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <onlineuser2010@mail2webmaster.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 04:48:07 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION WEBMAIL USER.

ATTENTION WEBMAIL SUBSCRIBER:

This mail is to inform you our {WEBMAIL} user that we will be

upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a Subscriber of

our site you are required to send us your Email account details so as to

enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box. Further

informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning

so as to create more space for new user. so you are to send us your mail

account details which are as follows:

*User name:

*Password:

*Date of Birth:

"Verify password:

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated

from our database. Your response should be send to the following e-mail

address.

Your Admin Manager:

onlineuser2010@mail2webmaster.com

Thanks for your corperation.

Anti-fraud resources:

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