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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.
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
- 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.
- micholo1790@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "TOOLS Tools" <tools@elghosta.com>
Reply-To: micholo1790@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 09:20:14 -0700
Subject: CALL +22969790395 FOR CONFIRM TOOLS
I am Nigerian Hacker called El-GHOSTA on forum. I am based in République du Bénin.
I spam fresh emails for GUYS online with my Spider Postman Software. My postman machine sends 2million emails to inbox @ a time within 40mins without been powered with SMTP.
Contact me and let me send your Viruses/Atachments/HTML & plain Format with my fresh Emails for you to get good REPLIES than to be wasting your money online buying fake tools around.
As you know there are many rippers online claiming they have fresh tools but end up ripping nigerian brothers all in the name of tools.
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KINDLY CALL MY MOBILE NUMBER DIRECT for more ENQUIRIES. You can also ADD me on my IDS below for CHAT.
MOBILE NUMBER: +22969790395
Email me OR chat me on Gmail Hangout id : micholo1790@gmail.com
SKYPE ID: live:ogala777_1
ICQ ID: 722270199
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