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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- ",000,000" (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)
- "international remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
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.
- geenclmbbank@accountant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "AHMAD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <geenclmbbank@accountant.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:02:59 +0800
Subject: IMPORTANT MATTERS

IMPORTANT MATTERS
Hello Dear Friends,
geenclmbbank@accountant.com

My name is Mrs. Geena Ahmad, Head of international Remittance department (Cimb Bank). I was instructed by my bank to pay all our owed foreign contractors/inheritors who have not yet received their funds.

In the process of paying the beneficiaries, I came across a fund file valued the sum of $19,000,000:00 USD as an unclaimed fund belonging to one of our late customer from your country who came to my country for some many years ago. Unfortunately, the customer died along the Malaysia Missing plane MH370.

My reason of contacting you today is to seek for your assistance to enable me transfer these funds into your bank account as a DEAL, as I could not be able to locate any next of kin to the late customer. Be inform, once l transfer the fund to your account in your country you will have 40% of the total amount for your assistance, while 60% will be for myself and one of our staff who is the account officer to the late customer.

Please contact me on this my private email geenclmbbank@accountant.com with your private telephone number for this transaction because of the confidential nature of this DEAL;

Regards,

Mrs. Geena Bin Ahmad.

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