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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 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.
Fraud email example:
From: "Nancy Rodriguez" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nancyrodriguez1925@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 20:06:10 +0100
Subject: Consider this message...
Hello my friend,
I am Nancy, a Banker and Credit System Programmer (Krayinvestbank Russia). I saw your contact email while browsing through the bank DTC Screen and I trust to have this deal with you.
As a first level system programmer of the Bank (Krayinvestbank Russia) I'm capable of initiating program transmission transfers to any trusted account. Now why I'm contacting you is that there are unclaimed pensions & Tax refunds abandoned for many years without trace and activity of the holder in which I have dislodged $42.5m from the unclaimed funds and have programmed from the Inter-switch Data Base for transmission to a different account as Dividend Warrant Transmission Payment in which I need you to forward an account where you will receive the Dividend Warrant Payment valued $42.5m which will be transmitted to your account in bits. Please all I need from you is sincerity and trust that you will not cheat or disappoint me.
Send me your account inform/co-ordinates for the transmission of this Dividend Warrant Payment. You have nothing to worry about because I also do not want to lose my work as banker in this 15 years of service.
My trusting you I believe will draw us closer for a better relationship in the future ahead. A lot of business opportunities come out from the DTC SCREEN which we can execute together.
Hope to hear from you with a firm promise that you will not let me down while looking forward to receiving your account.
Thank you!
Regards
Nancy Rodriguez
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