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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 message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
Fraud email example:
From: =?UTF-8?B?Ikdsb2JhbCBJbnRlcm5ldCBOZXR3b3JrIEF3YXJkIFByaXplIg==?= <ginawardprize@terra.com>
Date:
Subject:
Global Internet Network
New York Branch Office
Office Address: 982=
Road , Hippodrome,
New York 10911 , USA
These are your identific=
ation numbers.
Ticket number.....................085-12876077-09
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Serial number.......................51390-0
Lucky number........=
...........03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number...................N.EGS/3662=
367114/13
Attn :
Global Internet Network announces you as one=
of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Global Internet Network Aw=
ard on the 5th March 2015 All 25 winning Global Internet Network accounts w=
ere randomly selected from a batch of 50,000 International you have approve=
to receive your wining prize of $2.5Million. Your fund is now deposited wi=
th our paying Center =E2=80=93 UBA Bank Due Benin Republic, so you are inst=
ructed to contact the manager in charge for the processing of your payment =
Mme. Rosemary Cruz, via email address: ( auditor.rosemarycruz@outlook=
.com ) with your information for the payment of your wining prize. Below is=
the information needed:
1. Full Name: 2. Full Address: 3. Status: 4=
. Occupation: 5. Phone Number: 6. Country: 7. Age: For more direction on ho=
w you will receive your winning price. Congratulations in advance.
T=
hanks
Management
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