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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:
- "anti-terrorist certificate" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
- "fund beneficiary" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Federal Reserve System" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infowebsqqq@superposta.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 03:37:00 -0700
Subject: Re

WELCOME TO FEDERAL RESERVE BANK USA

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20551

http://www.federalreserve.gov/

CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FUND CREDIT FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BOARD

Attn: valued fund beneficiary,

This is officially to notify you personally, that we received a valued amount of funds to credit instruction from the federal government of Nigeria bank CBN to credit your account with your full inheritance fund sum of us$12.5million from the Nigerian federal reserve account with our bank federal reserve board USA.

However, we want you to send to us the (Funds Origin Certificate and Anti-terrorist Certificate) as the real BENEFICIARY of this sell funds, be informed that as soon as we receive the above documents form you, the transfer will commence immediately trough our paying bank.

Your immediate response is highly needed to enable us commence for the transfer.

You are to forward the documents to us immediately if you have it in your possession, however if you dont have it, let us know immediately so that we can direct you where to obtain the documents and send to us immediately, For your information, to acquire the documents will not cost you much money by our agent in Nigeria

We are looking forward to serving you better.

Congratulation to you

Best regards,

Mr. Ben S. Bernanke

Chairman of the Board of Governors

Of the Federal Reserve System

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