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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "transfer into your account" (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)
- "million dollars" (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.
- ogbonnaozieme@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: am.ogbonna@aol.fr
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 05:30:05 -0500
Subject: I Need your Help. Urgent
I Need your Help.Urgent
Greetings to you andyour family i am the manager of A BANK, i have a business of 7.4million dollarsto be transfer to your account for investment in your country if you are readyto assit me get back to me i will give you full details on how the money willbe transfer to you.Note: That after the fund has be transfer into your account40% for you, and 59% for me while the remaining 1% will be mapout for theexpences incure during the transfer of the fund to your account,
You must assure methat everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going tosuffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy AfricanPoliticians used our bank to Launder money overseas through the help of theirPolitical advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shoresof Africa was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to developthe continent.
Their Politicaladvisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so Ialso used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware thatthere is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts usedfor such transfers were being closed after transfer.I acted as the AccountOfficer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were usingme to succeed in their greedy act,I also cleaned some of their banking recordsfrom the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too muchfor them to control They laundered over $98Million Dollars during the process.As I amsending this message to you, I was able to divert ($7.4Million ) million Dollars to an escrowaccount belonging to no one in the bank.
if I received yourpositive reply from you through this private email address/ ( ogbonnaozieme@gmail.com)
The bank is anxiousnow to know who is the beneficiary to the funds because they have made a lot ofprofits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of thepoliticians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The$7.4Million Dollars has been lying waste but I don't want to retire from thebank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to ena ble me sharethe proceeds with the receiver. thisprivate email address ( ogbonnaozieme@gmail.com )
Best Regards,
Mr Ogbonna Ozieme
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