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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: "Cerami tony" <>
Reply-To: fujianair.conditioning@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:50:47 -0800
Subject: Our Order/Your Catalog
Good day,
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We are Dutcogroup Company Limited Could you send us your current price
list/catalogs?
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We are interested to order your product to be supplied in our market
urgently and it would be a very large order;
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also what is the Expected time of Delivery?
(1) Kindly send FOB prices and Ex-work,
(2) Inform Expected time of Delivery?
(3) Payment term? (T/T or L/C preferred)
Please respond as soon as possible as this order is very urgent.
Looking forward to hear you at earliest.
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Thanks & Regards,
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Cerami tony =
Dutco Group Inc =
Purchasing Marketing Department.
3955 Annapolis Lane N. | Suite 200 is | Plymouth, the MN | 55447 =
the Office : 952-31-540 the Extension : 1012 the Cell : 630-899-010 =
Hours : 8 am- 4pm Mon- catalog on Friday
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