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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.
- ab.60000@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Azeeza Basara <cbs446@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: ab.60000@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:35:26 -0800 (PST)
Subject: I will inform my attorney to help you withdraw////===
I will appreciate your kind response to my email. My name is Mrs. Azeeza Rana Basara, hailed from Qatar. My Husband is late Dr. Omar Jalal Basara. He work the Qatar embassy in Sudan and Morocco for twelve years. And retired as an oil merchant before his death. I decided not to get myself involved in any marriage after his death or a get a child outside my matrimonial home. I have been suffering from cancer of the uterus for four years after my husband died. Together with with hearing impairment due to drug reactions. We had no children after eighteen years in a peaceful marriage. Recently my doctor told me that my life will not exceed three months, due to the my cancer ailment. I have a deposit of $7.6Musd in a bank in England. So therefore, I wholeheartedly wants to distribute the fund to the less privileged in your country (former soviet union). I really want to use it to for humanitarian work. I have not child who will inherit this money from me. And
my husband's relatives has been bad to me since my my illness with cancer. I neither wants them nor the bank to get hold of my money after my death.
As soon as I get your reply, I will inform my attorney to help you withdraw the money from the bank, which you will use in the improvement of humanity in your region (country). Please assure me that you will sincerely assist me in doing so. I expects your reply in the soonest time with this email(ab.60000@hotmail.com)
Azeeza basara
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