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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 next of kin scam.
Fraud email example:
From: Jubrin Issah <jubrinissah010@gmail.com>
Reply-To: jubrinissah005@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:21:53 +0100 (BST)
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.
FROM MR JUBRIN ISSAH.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO. I am Mr Jubrin Issah the manager auditing and accounting department in African Development Bank.(ADB) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso in West Africa.I discovered unclaimed sum of $10.5m us dollars in our bank which belonged to one of our late foreign customer who died with his entire family in Kenya plane crash on 21 July 2003.I discovered this while cross-checking the files of foreigners in my department. Since I discovered the unclaimed fund and about his death,I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his fund because our bank cannot release the fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you.The request of a foreigner
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