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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.
- 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)
- "million dollars" (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.
- mrsjillian.simmons22@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Aaaa Aaaa <aaaa_aaaa24@aol.fr>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:32:54 -0500
Subject: Dear Friend. for security reason contact me Through this email
(mrsjillian.simmons22@yahoo.com)
DearFriend. for security reason contact me Through this email (mrsjillian.simmons22@yahoo.com)
Greetings to youand your family i am the manager of a bank, i have a business of 6milliondollars to be transfer to your account for investment in your country ifyou are ready to assit me get back to me i will give you full details onhow the money will be transfer to you.Note: That after the fund has betransfer into your account 38% for you, and 60% for me while theremaining 2% will be mapout for the expences incure during the transferof the fund to your account,
You must assureme that everything will be handled confidentially because we are notgoing to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of thegreedy African Politicians used our bank to Launder money overseasthrough the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds whichthey transferred out of the shores of Africa was gold and oil money thatwas supposed to have been used to develop the continent.
Their Politicaladvisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so Ialso used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am awarethat there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all theaccounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.I actedas the Account Officer to most of the politicians and when I discoveredthat they were using me to succeed in their greedy act,I also cleanedsome of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to askme because the money was too much for them to control They laundered over$38Million Dollars during the process .As I amsending this message toyou,
I was able todivert ($6M) million Dollars to an escrow account belonging to noone in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who is the beneficiaryto the funds because they have made a lot of profits with thefunds. It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are nolonger using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The $6Million Dollarshas been lying waste but I don't want to retire from the bank withouttransferring the funds to a foreign account to ena ble me share theproceeds with the receiver.
for securityreason contact me Through this email (mrsjillian.simmons22@yahoo.com)
(1.) your Name:
(2.) Country:
(3.)Phone Nb:
(4.)yourpassport:
(5.)yourOccupation:
(6.)Your Age:
Best Regards,
Mrs Jillian Simmons
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