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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "your country for safe keeping" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "keep this confidential" (scammers urge victims to keep the transaction secret because they don't want anyone to point out to them that it is a scam)
- 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.
- ab1lal@yahoo.fr (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mr Abdallah From Tunisia" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ab11ai@yahoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:06:14 -0800
Subject: Business Request
Strictly Confidential.
I am Mr Abdallah Kallel. former presidential adviser to the former Tunisia president ( Zine El Abidine Ben Ali) who was force out of power last month January 2011
after 23 years in Power.
I have a very sensitive and confidential request for your partnership in re-profiling funds $62.3 Million into your country for safe keeping as soon as possible.
You are very free to read from the link below to understand the urgency of my request.
http://www.iq4news.com/iq4news/ben-ali-assets-frozen
http://gobloglog.com/wife-president-running-gold/721/
http://www.tamildaily.net/2011/01/16/tunisian-president-zine-el-abidine-ben-ali-and-his-family%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98mafia-rule%E2%80%99/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/110126/tunisia-zine-el-abidine-ben-ali-arrest-facebook
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/tunisia/2011/01/201111502648916419.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348647/Tunisia-opens-investigation-wealth-ex-leader-Zine-El-Abidine-Ben-Ali.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/19/switzerland-freezes-assets-ben-ali-gbagbo
http://www.helium.com/items/2072541-new-tunisian-government-to-investigate-ex-tunisian-president-ben-alis-assets
This is a mandate he gave to me before he flee to Saudi Arabia last Friday.
If you are interested, provide me with your confidential details. I will provide further details as soon as you get back to me.
Please keep this confidential.
Mr Abdallah Kallel
Former Adviser to former Tunisia president
E - mail : ab1lal@yahoo.fr
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