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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:
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "transfer into your account" (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)
- "million dollars" (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.
- 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.
- mrssofia74@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: Mrs Sofia <mrssofiaali001@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 07:48:04 +0000
Subject: Greetings
Greetings
Greetings to you and your family i am the manager of a bank, i have a
business of 2million dollars to be transfer to your account for
investment in your country if you are ready to assit me get back to me
i will give you full details on how the money will be transfer to
you.Note: That after the fund has be transfer into your account 38%
for you, and 60% for me while the remaining 2% will be mapout for the
expences incure during the transfer of the fund to your account,
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 African 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 official 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 $38Million Dollars during
the process .As I amsending this message to you,
I was able to divert ($2M) million Dollars to an escrow account
belonging 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 $2Million Dollars has been lying waste but I don't want
to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign
account to ena ble me share the proceeds with the receiver.
PLS REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ID mrssofia74@yahoo.com
Your Full Name........
Your phone Number........
Your Passport.............
Your Profession...........................
Your Age.. ...........................
Your Country:
Mrs.Sofia Abu
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