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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "million united states 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 next of kin scam.
Fraud email example:
From: "Brian J. Joseph" <bj.joe1@kutedigital.com>
Reply-To: bj.joe1@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:21:25 +0100
Subject: I NEED YOU IN PARTNERSHIP.**
Greetings,
The Managing Director/CEO.
Do take a moment to consider the contents of this email. My contact to you
is strictly personal and confidential, I dare not contact you via my
official email to maintain the absolute confidentiality required in these
deal. Please whoever this email meets, i seek your co-operation and to
introduce my self, I am Brian J. Joseph. and i work for an intermediary
bank by name SNS Bank /Finance/Security Company here in Europe. I discover
from my security Vault data assessment as the bank auditor general that a
deceased customer left in one of his safes US$950MILLION [ NINE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ] and no one is aware of this for
the past 7 years 8 months. After few hours of meeting with the board
members, the conclusion to this was that the family be contacted but there
is no trace of them.
I am in search of someone who is financially buoyant that can allow me
file in his/her name as the heir/next of kin to receive this money with
0:00 percent risk free after which we can share the money 50/50 . If you
re interested you can reach me immediately.
I await your response if interested.
Truly Yours
Brian J. Joseph.
NB/ Presently I am in the US on a meeting with the IMF and the UNITED
NATIONS Agenda on debt reconciliation all over the World. I will be back
in Europe the forth night but should you have the need to talk with me on
phone urgent, I will give you my US number upon your positive response.
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