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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:
- "the consignment" (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)
- "trunk box" (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)
- "consignment " (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)
- "diplomatic agent" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
- 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.
- bernardjustin19@hotmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund <"WWW."@axel.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Your Belgian(Brussels) Diplomat Immediately" <bernardjustin19@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 20:29:51 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Contact Your Belgian(Brussels) Diplomat Immediately with the
#Hashtag(My Delivery/forgotten Clothes)
We the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sent a diplomatic agent to make the delivery of your US$6.5Million Compensation Fund in a consignment trunk box to your address as soon as possible and we do not reveal the content of the consignment trunk box to the Diplomatic agent for security reasons as he was told that it is a piece of clothes which you forgot the last time you visited our office in Belgium (Brussels) and has requested to return it back to you
Remember not to reveal the content to him by asking him how to make your fund delivery,just use the #Hashtag(My Delivery/forgotten Clothes) to be delivered and provide your below information to him to check-mate with the one he has and confirm before proceeding to your address to make the delivery appropriate.
Your Full name..........................
Your Current Home Address.................
Your state and Nationality...............
Your Mobile Phone Number.................
Your occupation..........................
Your Age and Sex.......................
Your ID Copy...........................
Contact him now with the above demanded information with the #Hashtag(My Delivery/forgotten Clothes) and you can email/call or text him as he is in the airport now waiting for you.
Diplomat Name.....Bernard Justin
Diplomat Phone Number....+1(605)269 5748
Diplomat email address...bernardjustin19@hotmail.com
Regards
Mrs.Christine Lagarde
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
8 Boulevard de Berlaimont
1000 Brussels, Belgium
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