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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: "Mike Stewart" <UTGAYW84021@altcen.ru>
Reply-To: CreditSuisseBank@vivaldi.net
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 03:12:21 -0500
Subject: Form Credit Suisse Bank
Hello Friend
I wish to introduce myself to you through this channel.
My name is Mike Stewart, I am the Head of Equity Investment with Credit Suisse Bank, I wish to state that I am impressed with your brief profile details on a professional online network and i feel that it will be good to share this cooperation with you.
I represent an Investment interest totaling £12.5 million (Twelve Million, Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling) and will like to deploy to your area of expertise in your country and under an investment project supervised by you. I hope this cooperation will be of interest to you and we can go ahead with the details upon your response.
Mike Stewart
Credit Suisse Bank
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