419 scam: "George Owen"<williamcolgate442@gmail.com> GREETINGS

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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: "George Owen" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <fadu452@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:32:27 -0400
Subject: GREETINGS

Attention: Email Owner,

Compliments of the season? This is to inform you that after the recent United Nations Executive General Assembly Meeting in New York, our

office has been appointed to pay all delay and mishandling transaction originated from Africa, Asia, Arab, Europe and America.

However, yesterday we received a payment credit instruction from the World Bank to release funds to you from their reserve account with us.

Moreover, base on World Bank instruction according to the United Nations report, your e-mail address was in the list submitted by their

e-mail electronic diversity monitoring team observers and we have try to contact you but your email bounce back.

Therefore, you are required to provide the followings details below for proper procedures.

1. Your Full name

2. Your Present address.:

3. Your Direct Tel number.:

4. Attachment Any Form of your identification.

Please do provide the above information accurately, because this office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds

or liability of funds credited into a ghost account.

We hope you find this improvement useful.

Yours in Service,

Mr.George Owen

For: The Management.

Financial Conduct Authority Online Coordinator

Tel:661-527-5489.

Anti-fraud resources:

What can you do when you receive 419 spam