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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:
- "united state of america" (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "rev_tundemark1@ymail.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- +2348073254723 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "REV.TUNDE MARK" <rev.tundemark@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rev_tundemark1@ymail.com
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:29:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Attention:

Attention:

This is to bring to your notice that we delegated
from the United Nation enconjunction with the New Nigerian President Good luck
Jonathan have been approved to pay 150 scam victims $1,5m (ONE MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.

You are listed and approved for this payment as one
of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to us as soon as
possible for the immediate payments of your $1,5m compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, we want you to
know that during the last U.N. meetings held at United State of America, it was
alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various
individuals to the Nigerian scams artists operating in syndicates all over the
world today.

In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in
conjunction with the New Nigerian President Good luck Jonathan Delegate is now
paying 150 victims of this operators $1,5m each in accordance with the U.N.
recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems
in Nigeria, the payments are to be supervised by the President Officials and
United Nations Auditing Department according to the number of applicants at
hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United
States, we still have more 36 left to be paid the compensations of $1,5m each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the
Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are
hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any
reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other
criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit
their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your compensations payments via any
of this options you Choose, DRAFT/ATM CARD or WIRE TRANSFERS. I shall feed you
with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Yours Sincerely.

Rev.Tunde Mark.

Direct Telephone: +234-8073254723.

E-Mail: rev_tundemark1@ymail.com

Appointed by the New Nigeria President under the UN
Officer.

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