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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 phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "consignment " (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.
- ecowasbenin@yahoo.com (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
- foreign payment dir republic of benin email: ecowasbenin@yahoo.com re: a cash payments for your honesty funds! attention (Yahoo; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: TNT EXPRESS <tntexpress61@yahoo.ro>
Reply-To: TNT EXPRESS <d.mark@mail333.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:44:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: A CASH PAYMENTS FOR YOUR HONESTY FUNDS!
 ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES
Debt Liquidation Committee
International foreign payment Dir
Republic of Benin
Email: ecowasbenin@yahoo.comÂ
RE: A CASH PAYMENTS FOR YOUR HONESTY FUNDS!
Attention Dear!!!
The Debt Liquidation Committee of Economic COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES wishing to officially notify you once again of your status via your email address as our previous letter to your home address mailbox was returned undelivered,therefore we use this above email/letter to inform you that a cash payment for the over due of your contractual- inheritance payment, which have been RELEASED and APPROVED for onward paying you in fiscal Cash.
And we are using this cash payment method to pay you after all attempts to pay you through Bank,ATM Card and some other failed means.we made a private arrangement with a financial expert and a higher delivery agent an International Diplomatic Dispatch Officer to convey these cash boxed-money to your designated door step for at personal collections.
The high delivery International Diplomatic Dispatch Agent (IDDA) has left the shore of Benin-Republic since two days ago with the security proof box sealed with synthetic nylon coated and padded with machine in worth of $8.7Millions (Eight Million,Seven Hundred United States Dollars),and has arrived in San Francisco International Airport California (USA).
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Hopefully this email has reached you to effect the arrangement of delivering the boxed-cash to you: you're advised to
reconfirm your delivery address to the International Diplomatic Dispatch Agent immediately to enable him deliver the
boxed-consignment to you within the stipulated time.
You are to reconfirm the below information to him immediately:
(1)Your Full Name: _______________
(2)Current complete Home Address: ___________ {not mail/p.o box}
(3)Mobile and fixed Phone Number: ______________
(4)Fax Number: __________________________
(5)Name of your Nearest Airport: _______________________
(6)A Copy of Your ID for Identification: _____________________
So contact him immediately via his email ID or with the listed telephone.
Contact name: Mr. Edward Mark
Contact Email:(d.mark@mail333.com) Â
Contact Telephone Number: (+1415-968-5668)
He is waiting to hear from you immediately with the needed information. Lastly the agent {IDDA REP} is not in the known of the actual content as fiscal cash;however shall declare the content to him as Sensitive family effects.Therefore he should not be in the known of the content please. Be warned ! so you will safely collect your payment to avoid hoaxes since you were disappointed in the past.
Thanks for your fellowship.
Yours in service,
Dr.Joseph Williams
Director:Debt Liquidation Committee
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES R/Benin
International On-line payments Co-coordinator. (c) 2015
TNT delivery COMPANY worldwide
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