419 Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam (2006-01)

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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.
- confe.secretary@gmail.com (Gmail/GoogleMail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- the calcasacl conference secretariat via email:confe.secretary@gmail.com or calcasacl_secretary@usa.com (Gmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- calcasacl_secretary@usa.com (Outblaze.com, Hong Kong; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Fraud email example:

From: Laura <asilva8@ig.com.br>
Reply-To: laura.juel@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 18:34:41 +0000
Subject: International conference invitation on sexual assault/child labour
USA 2014.

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*California Coalition Against Sexual Assault/CHILD Labour (CALCASACL)The
California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, a statewide coalition of
California's rape crisis centers/child Labour and prevention programs,
provides information on resources, training, legislation, and issues
helpful to individuals and groups committed to ending sexual violenceand
child labour.On behalf of the above mentioned organization (CALCASACL), we
invite you to participate in this forth-coming summit on Crises of Sexual
assault and violence against women/war against women trafficking and child
laborinternational conference.The aims of the conference is focused on how
to bring together researchers and practitioners to device modalities on how
to eradicate and abolish sexual violence(Rape)by men and teenagers raping
and beating females, especially theirwives,and how to abolish child
labour.Child labour is the practice of having children engage in economic
activity,on part or full-time basis. The practice deprives children of
their childhood,and is harmful to their physical and mental development.
Poverty, lack of goodschools and growth of informal economy are considered
as the important causes of child labour in India,Ivory Coast,Ghana,Nigeria
and some other parts of the world.The international Congress meeting is
scheduled to takeplace from February 17th - 21st 2014 in California the
United States and in Dakar-Senegal, from February 24th - 28th 2014.Note
that all interested delegates traveling documents and visa to enter the
United States to attend this workshop will be assisted by the
organization,in obtaining the visa in their passport. Free air round trip
ticket to attend this meeting will be provided to all participants.Note
that paper presentation is open to any interested participants willing to
present paper during the summit.If you are interested in attending and for
fast respond contact the CALCASACL conference secretariat via
email:confe.secretary@gmail.com <confe.secretary@gmail.com> or
calcasacl_secretary@usa.com <calcasacl_secretary@usa.com> as soon as
possible, and share the information with your colleagues.Sincerely,Ms.Laura
Juel.(Ph.D) The Program coordinatorCALCASACL,California US.Email:
laura.juel@yahoo.com <laura.juel@yahoo.com>*

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