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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:
- "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)
- 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.
- suzannehosnnimubarak@myself.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mrs.suzanne mubaraka" <suzannemubaraka@cablebirds.com>
Reply-To: suzannehosnnimubarak@myself.com
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:38:45 -0000
Subject: Trust Deal
This is confidentially to:
l am Mrs. Suzanne the former First Lady of Mubarak of Egypt; I decided to
contact you for these important matters. My husband is very sick and also
having problem with the new administrative that resulted my family assets
being frozen. I need a foreign representative to receive my family
reserved fund for safe keeping in your country.
Please tell me if you are in any position to receive my children and the
family fund bit by bit of what you are able to receive in your country,
the total amount is USD (150, 820, 000: 12) One Hundred and Fifty Million
Eight and Twenty Thousand. If you can save this fund for my children in
your country I will pay you Thirty (30%) out of the amount for your local
service to keep the fund safe in your country.
Kindly notify me if you can render your service to my family so I can
recommend you to my accountant on how the fund will be transfer into your
account little by little. You could be surprised l am communicating with
you as we do not know ourselves before. but I have no option as l and my
husband have decided to relocate my children out of Egypt for safety; this
is why I searched for a partner outside Egypt. And I got your contact. Be
informed, the fund is deposited outside my country and I'm contacting you
because I made inquiring and I was advised to employ a foreign partner to
stand by my family in your country.
Please write me on this my personal Email.
suzannehosnnimubarak@myself.com
Thank You.
Mrs Suzanne H. Mubarak
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