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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.
- dr_rexj@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Mrs Asha Migiro <uneca----102@att.net>
Reply-To: asha_migiro@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:58:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Official release of your Master card.
Attn: Beneficiary
UN Executive Commission For Africa.
In Line with the past Year ended record it has clearly shown that your overdued inheritance payment is yet to be paid.
Welcome to a new payment season dearest Beneficiary. The entire members of this board wishes you compliments of the season.
A General meeting was held this morning among the Ex-Claims Administrators to give report on the payment scheme that occured last Year and your name was listed as part of Beneficiary that didn't receive your ATM Card as a result of one delay or the other.
We know how much you have spent and how far you have gone to see that you receive the card before the Xmas and New Year but there was a requirement that delayed the process for us and as it stands now all modalties has been put in place.
Right now you do not have to pay any fee in form of document charges,delivery charges, insurance and so on. The only requirement from you now is to reconfirm your details with us again and a token fee of $320usd as for re-issuance of your ATM card because the date on the former card has expired and it will cost you that amount alone to re-issue it all over again.
An instruction was passed on the note to your new Administrator Dr Rex Johnson to ensure you receive the card this fist week so that we can start a new project.
For safety reasons you strictly advised to terminate every other transactions and adhere to instructions given by this office so we can ascertain you get your card within this period allocated for you.
Do reconfirm below again with your new Claims Administrator Dr. Rex Johnson.
YOUR FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE#:
NEAREST AIRPORT:
........................................................
CONTACT AGENT'S NAME: DR. REX JOHNSON
EMAIL: dr_rexj@hotmail.com
After which you have forward the information back to the Claims Administrator an instruction will be forwarded to you on how to get the re-issuance fee of your card to your new claims Administrator (Dr Rex Johnson).
I wish you best of luck and Compliments of the Season once again.
Mrs Asha Migiro
Deputy secretary general(UNECA).
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