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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "noriegag@voila.fr" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
- This email message is a next of kin scam.
Fraud email example:
From: Graciela Noriega1 <graciela.noriega1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: noriegag@voila.fr
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:20:48 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR REPLY
THANK YOU,
For your kind attention,
Could you please consider helping me
to relocate this sum of Ten Million five hundred thousand dollars
(us$10.5m) to your Country for establishing an industry in your country.
This fund was deposited in our bank
by Mr. Paul Louis Halley from France who died in a plane crash in 2003
TBM 700 aircraft on 6 December with his wife and the whole crew on
board.
Without a (heir) hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be
forfeited for nothing and the big guns at the herms of administration at
the bank will share this fund amongst themselves as it has been done if
no trace of heir to such fund is found.
We have tried to contact his family to come forward for claims but could not succeed.
Click here (http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/4537663.stm.
I will give you all vital information
concerning the France citizen and the $10.5m in our custody so that you
will contact my bank for them to release the money to you as the next
of kin to the deceased person.
You will have to establish contact
with the bank while i will guide you on the steps to follow till the
transfer of this fund reaches to you and your account.
As one of the bank directors, I will play a role to make sure that the fund is released to you.
This is a legitimate transaction and
you will be compensated with 40% for your assistance for presenting
yourself as the next of kin and account to receive this fund in your
country. If you are interested please write back for more
clarifications.
I will know that actually you are
ready to be my partner and then I will have to send to you a draft
application form which you are to fill and apply for the release of the
fund to your account in your desired country.
Mrs Graciela.Noriega
Private email:(noriegag@voila.fr)
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