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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 message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
Fraud email example:
From: "Barr. William Ekwueme James" <info@barrister.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:48:06 +0100
Subject: FROM BARRISTER WILLIAM E. JAMES..62.212.234.108
* 1.6 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60%
* [score: 0.5000]
* 0.3 FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT Reply-To freemail username ends in
* digit (barristerwilliamsjames1759[at]gmail.com)
* -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP
* 0.5 SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject is all capitals
* 0.0 MILLION_USD BODY: Talks about millions of dollars
* 0.0 LOTS_OF_MONEY Huge... sums of money
* 0.0 HK_SCAM No description available.
* 0.5 MISSING_MID Missing Message-Id: header
* 2.1 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From
* 2.2 MONEY_NOHTML Lots of money in plain text
* 2.3 RISK_FREE No risk!
* 0.0 MONEY_FREEMAIL_REPTO Lots of money from someone using free
* email?
* 1.0 XFER_LOTSA_MONEY Transfer a lot of money
* 0.0 MONEY_FRAUD_8 Lots of money and very many fraud phrases
* 0.5 ADVANCE_FEE_5_NEW_MONEY Advance Fee fraud and lots of money
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