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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:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- 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 fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
- This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- info.eu.govt@europe.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "EUROPEAN AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <scb.ng@rediffmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 02:34:03 +0200
Subject: OFFICIAL NOTICE/ IMPORTANT RESULT
EUROPEAN AWARD PROMOTION PROGRAM
288 Boulevard Saint-Germain
F - 75007 PARIS
Email:info.eu.govt@europe.com
Tel/Fax: +33753003670
Winner's Result Notification Letter!!!
This award promotional prize program is an European international Award prize program granted and conducted by the European Union commission (EU) held in European Union commission office for European Award International lottery promotion of the sum of One Million Euros only (1.000.000 EUR) granted and awarded to the winners whose name/ data has been selected by the European award lottery promotion and the winner is notified by his/her email address or by official Postal mail.
European award lottery promotion collects all the names and active email contact addresses from European Union commission system data for electronic system procession selection unit and if your name /email is selected as one of the winners an automatic official winner’s notification email message will be send to you immediately to your email for notification of your won prize.
If you have receive this winner’s notification massage that is because you are a winner and your contact information is now officially registered in our European award lottery promotion system data as an official approved winner of the prize with a security code and Registration code below:
Reg Code: EU731324
Security Code:0838401311
Please, you have to provide all these necessary important information below for final procession and conclusion of the procession and official authorization of your won prize redemption/remittance.
1. FULL NAME:
2. HOUSE ADDRESS:
3. HOUSE POSTAL CODE:
4. COUNTRY:
5. GENDER:
6. AGE:
7. OCCUPATION:
8. MOBILE:
9. TELEPHONE
10. FAX:
All massages and information should be forwarded and send to us by this official email address below for the quick procession of your file.
Name: Rev. BENJAMIN HUGO
Email: info.eu.govt@europe.com
Tel:+33753003670
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