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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 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!
Fraud email example:
From: "Coca Cola" <mails@handicraftghar.com>
Reply-To: pcsalem@pcsalem.com
Date: 15 Feb 2018 07:26:27 -0800
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?WW91ciBDb2NhLUNvbGEgbG90dG8gV2lubmluZyBTdHJlYWsgUHJpemUg4oKsMjUsNjAwLjAwMCBFUg==?=
Coca-Cola-European Partners
Netherlands. Watermanweg
30. Rotterdam,
3067 GC Netherlands
https://www.ccep.com
We wish to congratulate you over your mobile success in our
online Coca-Cola-European Partners and world wild Coca-cola
mobile lottery promotion Draw. The 2018 Tenth lottery annual
promo held here in north-western Europe, Amsterdam Netherlands.
This is a millennium scientific computer game in which mobile
numbers were selected online and used. It is a promotional
program aimed at encouraging Coca-Cola Customers World-Wild.
Therefore you do not need to buy any ticket to enter it.
You have been approve to claim the sum of €25,600.000 ER (Twenty
Five Million, Six Hundred Thousand Euros) from online Coca-cola
mobile lottery promotion. To claim your winning prize you are to
provide the following information as soon as possible for
immediate release of your winning prize with the below stated
information.
1.) Full name:
2.) Age:
3.) Sex:
4.) Address:
5.) Winning mobile number:
6.) State/province:
7.) Country:
8.) Phone:
9.) Occupation/position:
Please kindly furnish us with the following information for
processing of you prize.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs Sol Daurella Comadrán
Chairman of the Board Coca-Cola-European Partners
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