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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:
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- 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.
- euro.milliongamesonlineuk@vfemail.net (Vfemail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
Fraud email example:
From: "Europromo" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <euro.milliongamesonlineuk@vfemail.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:58:26 +0100
Subject: promo
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We the executive and staff EURO-MILLIONS ONLINE AND GAMING CORPORATION
Wishes to specially congratulate you for being our end of year gift/prize
Promo winner.
You have won a total cash prize Ј450,000.00 (Four Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Great British Pounds),
Your lucky email with unique micros ID TFV-8429-YUZ-078SD-40 randomly merges
With the winning numbers 17/24/26/28/22 11-45 won you the prize under our
Consumer/General public category.
We thereby contact you to claim your winning amount quickly as this is a
Monthly lottery. failure to claim your winning will result into the reversion
Of the winning prize to our following month lottery.
Kindly, contact our claiming department with the following details:
Names, email micros ID enlisted on this email.
Dr .Gorman Odell from EUROPEAN EURO-MILLIONS ZONAL CO-ORDINATOR.
EMAIL:::: euro.milliongamesonlineuk@vfemail.net
TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM, YOU ARE ADVICE TO KEEP YOUR WINNING TO YOURSELF.
ONLINE LOTTERY CLAIM DEPARTMENT LONDON UNITED KINGDOM
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