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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:
- "million us 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.
Fraud email example:
From: MRS GRACE JOHNSON <rabin.samaroo@filogix.com>
Reply-To: MRS GRACE JOHNSON <mrsviviannoni555@yahoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:59:50 +0900 (JST)
Subject: WELCOME TO DHL OFFICE BENIN REPUBLIC.
Congratulation My beloved one,There is one parckage deposited by Mr John Ntepe last month in our office here in Benin Republic,And the package contain atm master card worth $2.5million US dollars.And he paid the delivery fee sum of $150 US dollars but he did not pay the security keeping charge sum of $120 US dollars.
So what you ahve to do now is,If you are ready to recieve your parckage you know that you will pay the security keeping charge sum of $120 US dollars.
Kindly contact the director of DHL Mrs Vivian Noni with all your information to enable them complete your delivery to your door step.
I want to give you some tracking listed for those who have already received their own atm card through our service and right now they all enjoying it with no complain.
check this tracking list by typing www.dhl.com then put.(1)2896411641(2)2896411641(3)2896412061(4)2897840175.
You atm master card serial number is 4506-8675-2345-9245.
So therefore you are required to provid all the information listed below for fast delivery.
1 YOUR NAME__
2 YOUR COUNTRY__
3 YOUR ADDRESS__
4 YOUR PHONE NUMBER__
5 YOUR OCCUPATION__
6 YOUR AGE___
7 A COPY OF YOUR ID__
YOURS IN SERVICE.
MRS GRACE JOHNSON
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