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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:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "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.
- mrsjilliansimmons01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Mrs Jillian Simmons <drlehman11@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrsjilliansimmons01@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:34:05 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend. for security reason contact me Through this email (mrsjilliansimmons01@gmail.com)
Dear Friend. for security reason contact me Through this email
(mrsjilliansimmons01@gmail.com)
Greetings to you and your family i am the manager of a bank, i have a
business of 6million dollars to be transfer to your account for
investment in your country if you are ready to assit me get back to me
i will give you full details on how the money will be transfer to
you.Note: That after the fund has be transfer into your account 38%
for you, and 60% for me while the remaining 2% will be mapout for the
expences incure during the transfer of the fund to your account,
You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially
because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years
now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to
Launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers.
Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa
was gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop
the continent.
Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer
to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of
the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how
much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were
being closed after transfer.I acted as the Account Officer to most of
the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to
succeed in their greedy act,I also cleaned some of their banking
records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the
money was too much for them to control They laundered over $38Million
Dollars during the process .As I amsending this message to you,
I was able to divert ($6M) million Dollars to an escrow account
belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who
is the beneficiary to the funds because they have made a lot of
profits with the funds. It is more than Eight years now and most of
the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds
overseas. The $6Million Dollars has been lying waste but I don't want
to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign
account to ena ble me share the proceeds with the receiver.
for security reason contact me Through this email
(mrsjilliansimmons01@gmail.com)
(1.) your Name:
(2.) Country:
(3.)Phone Nb:
(4.)your passport:
(5.)your Occupation:
(6.)Your Age:
Best Regards,
Mrs Jillian Simmons
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