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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.
- kathysherrard87@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mrs. Kathy Sherrard" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kathysherrard87@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 14:46:42 -0700
Subject: [Spam]We noticed the incoming transfer
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
We noticed the incoming transfer of funds in your name coming from Outside of the United States which was later accepted to our bank, In the few hours of processing,
We noticed that the transferring organization was actually trying to credit your bank account for months which has consistently been delayed.
We have been able to get your full contact, we have also been able to notice that this funds has been waved several times and in the process must has cost the sender
of beneficiary a lot of money to secure the funds properly into the United States due to the delay the waved has caused, and fully aware of the process we have decided to take the responsibility as an intermediary to ensure you get your funds.
We are glad to inform you that the funds is in our custody now but we would need to be sure that you rightfully expecting huge sum of funds outside the United States of America.
Please fill the follow details for us to confirm your claim.
Full Name:-
Address:-
Telephone Number:-
State:-
City:-
Zip Code:-
Incoming Amount of Funds:-
Originating Country:-
We have been able to hold this for about 48hours and we are sure the bank that has made the outgoing transfer of the funds is trying to wave your payment to somewhere else.
Get back to us as soon as possible for the final procedure to release the funds into your account.
The World Bank
Mrs. Kathy Sherrard
Managing Director
kathysherrard87@gmail.com
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