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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:
- "you are advise to" (this email uses bad English)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: Email Account Verification <office-------kkk2@att.net>
Reply-To: johnwlsnffc@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:20:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Welcome to Email Account Verification
Welcome
to Email Account Verification
Attention!!!!: /Confirm Your Account To Avoid
Closed!
We are
sorry to inform you that we are currently working on securing our server, During
this process of an Account that is not manually verified by us will be deleted,
Please You are advise to Verify and Confirm your EMAIL! Account details below to
Enable Us to upgrade your Account. E.G Your email account! ID, Password, Date Of
Birth etc.
Anyone who fails to
do his or her own will Automatically lost HIS or HER own email!
Account.
VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ! ACCOUNT NOW !!!
User Name:
User Id:
Password:
Date Of Birth:
Country (At Sign up):
This message is from email account
verification! Message Center to all email account! free Account owners and
Premium Account owners. We are currently Upgrading Our Database and E-mail
Accounts Center. We are deleting all unused Email! Account to create more space
for a New Member.
To prevent your
account from being De-activated automatically by email! You will have to update
it Quick at which we need a response from you within the Warning!!! Account
owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this
warning will lose his or her account permanently. Upon confirmation of
information from you, We will manually verify your Email! Account not to be
De-activated, We are sorry for any inconveniences this might have cause
providing your information over the Email.
Thanks for using Email account!
Mail.
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