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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: MR ALI SALIF <ali_salif@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alisalif01@voila.fr
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 05:51:49 +0800 (SGT)
Subject: Your Urgent Reply.
Hello My Dearest
Greetings to you and your family , My name is Ail Salif manager
of bill and exchange in bank, i have i business of 5.5 Million Euro to be
transfer to your account for investment in your country if you are ready to
assist me get back to me i will give you full details on how the money will be
transfer to you.
You must assure me that everything will be handled
confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10
years now that most of the greedy Politicians used our bank to Launder money
overseas through the help of their Political advisers.
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of
Africa was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the
continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer
to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds
hence I am aware that there is no of facial trace of how much was transferred as
all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer.
I acted as the Account Officer to most of the politicians and
when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act, I also
cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to
ask me because the money was too much for them to control.
They laundered over (90 Million Euro) during the process .As I
am sending this message to you, I was able to divert Five Million Five Hundred
Thousand Euro (â,¬5.5M) to an escrow accountbelonging to no one in the
bank.
The bank is anxious now to know who is the beneficiary to the
funds because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It is more than
Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to
transfer funds overseas. The (5.5 Million Euro) has been lying waste but I don't
want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account
to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver.
The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you .There is
no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything. please
quickly reply me
Yours Faithfully,
Mr Ali Salif
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