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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.
- 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.
- rosinichafkarov@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- is the one that saved me here's his email address: rosinichafkarov@hotmail.com here is my email address: romanisara@hotmail.com for (Hotmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: "Financing appropriateness (Unbelievable but true)"
<oranebisson@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rosinichafkarov@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 23:28:38 +0200
Subject: Financing appropriateness (Unbelievable but true)
Hello Sir / Madam.
I am a nurse by profession and after divorcing my wife I solicited
loans from many banks to rebuild me but they have rejected me and I
decided to find a particular lender who could make me this loan.
Unfortunately for me, during my research I came across crooks from the
Ivory Coast and Congo who posed for lenders promising to firing me the
amount I wanted to borrow (? 120,000) and m 'defrauded everything I had.
I was about to kill myself when I saw our best man to whom I spoke
about my situation and advise me that a group of lender individual who
has been able to get this loan to get out of this financial impasse in
which I found myself. I could not believe it because I was looking for
this loan for over 2 years and in 72 hours I was able to get this loan
with this group it grants loans in all areas including:
* Financial
* Real Estate Loans
* Investment Loans
* Auto Loan
* Debt Consolidation
* Line of Credit
* Second Mortgage
* Acquisition of credit
* Personal Loans
* Etc ...
I would advise you to contact Ms. Rosini is the one that saved me
Here's his email address: rosinichafkarov@hotmail.com
Here is my email address: romanisara@hotmail.com for more information
I guarantee you that you will get the loan you need.
For my part, I am now beaming with my children and I pay my
monthly payments each month end.
Kind regards.
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