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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.
- testalk@126.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: FEDEX Customers Care <i.mackay2@aol.co.uk>
Reply-To: tress.americas@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:10:58 -0700
Subject: Your Package
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Dear !
Your package containing your VISA Credit/Debit Card worth $2,500.000.00
as part payment of your unremitted fund has not been delivered to you
due to your failure to meet logistics requirement 803 and 801. You can
track it online for your perusal.
https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=tcn&cntry_code=us
TCN or Tracking Number: 800277347645
After tracking, you should discover it has been on transit and at our
facility center since Mon 9/08/2014. You are therefore, required to send
us the following.
Your full name
Contact Address
Telephone/Fax
Date of Birth
Occupation
Send those details above to (testalk@126.com)
Fedex hopes to serve you better
Regards
Ian Mackay
London, United Kingdom Facility Center
You can still confirm below by clicking
https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=tcn&trackingnumber=800277347645&cntry_code=us&shipdate=2015-10-06
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