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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "money laundering" ("anti-terrorist", "anti-money laundering" or "drug-free" certificates are a common way for criminals in fake lottery scams and other Advance Fee scams to get you to send money to them. There are no such certificates in the real banking world. )
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
- 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.
- josephmaduka01@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Leonard Rivera <amkenn4@gmail.com>
Reply-To: josephmaduka01@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:46:35 +0000
Subject: Attention Beneficiary
Hello This Is To Inform you that the Financial Intelligence Dept in
Washington DC A bureau of the United States Department of the
Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial
transactions in order to combat domestic and international money
laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes and
Financial Intelligence Unit And information on U.S Anti-Money
Laundering Uncleared funds Consignments since 2019 has approved for
the final clearance of your unclaimed compensation funds held for long
due to clearance issues I’M contacting you because in the face of the
corruption and illegal cyber crime activity literally overruns America
and other parts of the World Such evil finally blocks all efforts to
create a trustworthy climate for internet Transactions Citizens are
threatened lied unto and ripped off their very last little money
Also some back up documents currently on my desk to be signed and send
back to the originated country as unclaimed fund As result of the
information I got, I told them to wait until I hear from you today so
that I will know the reason why you rejected such an amount of money
which is your compensation fund just because of the clearance issues
I need your urgent response as soon as you receive my email and
explain to me the reason why you have abandon your box but if you
don't need it then I can push for forfeiture order to allow other
beneficiaries here in the United States awarded the funds as
compensation so that the Government will not move the funds to the
Government treasury contact the Mr.Joseph Maduka who has all
information about the clearance of this package At
(josephmaduka01@gmail.com)
Leonard Rivera
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