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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.
Fraud email example:
From: "Dr.Ken Slinman" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drkenslinman@yahoo.cn>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 03:42:50 -0500
Subject: PAYMENT APPROVED/TRANSFER YOUR FUNDS NOW
ATTENTION:
This e-mail is coming to you from the ATM payment center federal
republic of Nigeria as a matter of fact myself and the entire board of
directors of this firm has been on a crucial meeting regarding your
payment and for this reason i had sent you series of emails and you
were unable to reply my email why?So after our lastmeeting today
i was instructed to kindly return your approved payment
file to the officeof the presidency for immediately cancellation because we are not
happy over the way you are going about your funds ,
However at the end of our meeting when i had been asked to return your
payment file to the office of the presidency for immediate
cancellation of your payment
i decided to plead to them on your behalf to please give me a benefit
of doubt to enable
me get in touch with you before your payment will be canceled of which
they granted my
request but based on one condition and the condition is that you will
have to get back to
me as soon as possible with the following information below,
Here are the needed information,
1) your full Names
2) your full house address
3) your direct cell phone
4) your occupation
5) your Age,
As soon as we have the following information your ATM card which
contains the total sum of $1,million u.s dollars will be dispatched to
your door step
immediately with out further delays from my side but after today and
we do not hear from you
then your funds be returned back to the federal government reserve account as an
unclaimed funds please be warned.and please be informed that this ATM
card will only be able to allow you cash out the sum of $5,000 u.s
dollars daily until the total sum is reached.
Regards.
Dr.Ken Slinman
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