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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: "Dr. Lewis Judd" <nstrohm@live.com>
Reply-To: adienewis@blumail.org
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:44:51 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Greeting From Dr.Lewis Judd.
With due respect. Excuseme for haven’t any formal correspondence before this message, although, I wantyou to understand that one and another knows from one way and in another; My Name is Dr. Lewis Judd, I am banker by profession and currently holding the post of an external auditor in accounting, under legal section of bank. I got your email through the net when I was making a research for a foreignerthat I will use in this great opportunity because I don't want this money to berecalled to our Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund so I decided to contactyou in a good manna to assist me and also to share the benefit together withme. I am contacting you independently of my investigation and no one is informed ofthis communication. I urgently need foreign partner in transferring (€12.6Million Euro) abroad for investment which must benefit each of us.  Kindly get back to me as soon as possible for further briefing on the investment planand
procedure. YoursFaithfullyDr. Lewis Judd
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