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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: beauty jubah <jubahbeauty2@gmail.com>
Reply-To: beautyjubah@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:38:41 -0800
Subject: Hello dear
Hello dear
How are you today? hope all is well with you, my name is Beauty jubah is my
pleasure to contact you after viewing your profile which really interest me
to communication with you. if you have the desire with me so we can get to
know each other better and see what happiness in the future. I'll be very
glad if you could send me back to my personal e-mail for easy communication
and to know more about each other.i will send you a picture of me when I
receive your response, I'll wait to hear from you, and I I wish you all the
best on your days. thank you and have nice day for me OK
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