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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:
- "is 100% risk free" (almost true for the criminal trying to scam you - arrests of online criminals are rare)
- This email message is a next of kin scam.
Fraud email example:
From: Richard.Amah@yahoo.com
Reply-To: r.amah@yandex.com
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 03:10:03 +0400
Subject: [ SPAM ] FROM Richard Amah,
Complement of the day.
I know that my correspondence to you may appear as a surprise to you since we have not meet or communicate before but I have taking the decision to contact you on this regards after going through your profile to see if we can keep to ourselves by giving ourselves a step of trial. However, it's just my urgent need for foreign associate that leads me to you for this mutual benefit able transaction if we can keep to us. I am a banker by profession from Ghana and currently holding the post of Director of Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.
I discovered a left over sum of ($27 million). These sum was on the name of our deceased customer Late Mr. Lam Kok who died in a helicopter crash in France while inspecting one of his new acquisitions.
Please follow the link to read more about his story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25476662
I am inviting you for a business deal with my position in the bank here we can claim the funds then share within us in the ratio of 50/50 as a brotherhood. This deal is 100% risk free as far as we can keep the confidentiality of it to ourselves and I will make sure that every modalities that will carry us along perfectly worked out.
If you are interested on this proposal, further details on how to proceed to the next stage to archive this aim will be forwarded to you as soon as I receive your respond along with the following information's.
1.NAME IN FULL:.
2.ADDRESS:.
3.NATIONALITY:.
4.AGE:.
5.SEX...
6.OCCUPATION:.
7.PRIVATE PHONE NO..
8.AN ID OF YOURS:.
I will be expecting hearing from you urgently.
Regards.
Richard Amah
Tel: 233230807647
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