419 scam: "Amina Saib"<mahmoudi@avicenna.ac.ir> I NEED YOUR HELP.

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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:
- "million british pounds" (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.
- jenniferamina_s@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Amina Saib" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jenniferamina_ss@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 18:11:11 -0300
Subject: I NEED YOUR HELP.

My E-mail: jenniferamina_s@yahoo.com



        Hello Am sorry to this disturb you. My name is Jennifer

        Amina Saib, am from Syria. There is serious war crisis here

        in Syria, and I have lost my parents and my two brothers in

        war.



        I want you to help me to receive GBP.2.000.000.00 Two

        million British pounds sterling, which my late father

        deposited with my name in a bank in London, I can not go to

        London because of war here in Syria. I want to come to your

        country and start a new life, because am the only survival

        in my family. I agree that you should take 40 percent of the

        fund and you keep 50 percent for me, then you give 10

        percent to the charity.



        Contact me for more details of the money: jenniferamina_s@yahoo.com

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