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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: Mensah ABDUL <7936064@multilinks.com>
Reply-To: Mensah ABDUL <mensahabdul@meta.ua>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 23:13:38 +0100 (WAT)
Subject: Contact us immediately
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Dear Sir,
We are seller of Gold dust, Bar and Diamond Stones in Accra – Ghana and we are interest to be your supplier we have been in this business for years now but we are a private company acting for the miners as the end Seller.
You need to understand that is very hard for most buyers to convince the seller but we do all the procurement at both side. We had taking everything upon ourselves to have the Gold and Diamond in our Bank for our Buyer to View and Test.
Please kindly let us know your interest so we can send you our FCOs for the Gold and Diamond and Manifest for the Diamond Stones
We shall be waiting to hear from you.Send a direct email to: m.abdul@meta.ua
Thanks
Mensah Abdul
Accra-Ghana
Skype: mensah.abdul
Email: m.abdul@meta.ua
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