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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: Mariam Ba <mariambakayoko20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Mariam Ba <mariambamba010@yahoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:33:43 +0900 (JST)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION
I am Mrs Mariam
Bamba; manager Regional to the Bank BOA. I contact you in my research of a
foreign partner for the treatment of a confidential Transaction of a big
importance. Being regional manager of the Bank BOA; he is of my duty to send a
financial return to my head office at the end of every year. On the course of
the report of year 2007; I discovered an exceptional seven million dollar
benefit [7 000 000 $] which I put on an inactive count; without beneficiary.
As leader of
the bank; I should not be directly linked to these funds. I offer you to work
together for the transfer of funds. I want to name you as enforcer as the
initial Beneficiary of these funds; so that my head office treats the
transference of funds in your bank account. The report percentage is the
following: 40 % for you and 60 % for me. I stay looking forward to your quick
answer for which I hope favourable for the complete details.
Warmly
Mrs Mariam
Bamba
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