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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 beneficiary," (this SPAM email was probably sent to thousands of people)
- "barr." (Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.)
- 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.
- barr.carlos.adan@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
- by mailing him through his special email address (barr.carlos.adan@gmail.com) so that he can process your fund for disbursement. (Gmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mark.E.Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <barr.carlos.adan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 11:10:50 +0100
Subject: GIFT PLEDGE
Dear Beneficiary,
This is to inform you personally that i the founder of facebook.Mark.E.Zuckerberg and my loving dear wife.Priscilla Chan voluntarily donate the sum of 1.Million Euros to you as our pledge to our new born baby that we will give to charity 99% of our facebook profit and we quote "We are committed to doing our small part to help create this world for all children",this is part of our charitable foundation name Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with focuses on health and education.
You can read more of this on my facebook page and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg)
As philanthropists our aim is to improve the lives of people around the world and help the less priviledge by founding education and health research programmes.We hope that this kind gesture of cash gift will go along way in helping you archive your dreams and we plead that you touch the lives of people around you by giving to charity in your community.
NOTE:GIVERS NEVER LACK.
If you are reading this mail which is directly from us then you are one of the 5 lucky unknown beneficiaries of our donation gift and all you have to do is to contact our family advocate in the person of Barr.Carlos.Adan with this below informations and this secret code (MZ-34/PC-05) as your proof of been awarded this cash benefit by mailing him through his special email address (barr.carlos.adan@gmail.com) so that he can process your fund for disbursement.
1).Full Names:
2).Resident Address:
3).Telephone Number/Country Code:
4).Secret Code:
Please we don't want you to over rejoice over this great offer and let lose this informations to the general public,because people will take advantage of this and rush to have a share of this charity offer by sending us emails and possibly trying to contact our lawyer too,as we wish you a great fortune and hope that you will be kind enough to give a little to charity and your community and help the poor.
Best Wishes,
Mark.E.Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.
chanzuckerberg.initiative@gmail.com
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