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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 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: "jane" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <janeabraham@zoho.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:28:00 +0100
Subject: "Please help me "
Hello dear foriegn"business partner"
Sorry that I wrote you without your permission .This is not a fraud /scam massage. I am a branch manager with National Investment bank Ghana, and I need to make you the beneficiary of a contract fund of $14,386,000.00 USD in an Escrow account which my late client from Germany made in his supply of medical equipment deal with the Ghana Government 11 years ago.
The depositor died 4 years ago without a next of kin/beneficiary to this fund/account.
You stand to gain %40 of the total money of this deal if we succed in the transfer of this funds to your account. With my position in the bank we can emply a lawyer that can assist us to secure some legal paper works to back up our claims.
Please get back to me with your complete Name, Address and Mobile phone number.
Please keep this as a top seceret just between us.
Yours truly
Mrs Jane Abraham(NIB) bank branch manager.
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