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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: "Kevin O' Connor" <fhartman892@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ko6307291@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:54:18 -0800
Subject: Standard Chartered Bank of America
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This message is reaching to you from Standard Chartered Bank of
America and we are here to let you know that your $18.5m has
successfully registered in our bank with instruction of United Nations
president and IMF general director for us to help them transfer your
fund through our Telephone Banking System.
Your $18.5m was approved on 2nd December 2021 by the American
compensation scheme team who confirmed that you are one of the scam
victim who lost their fund to the wrong people but we were busy since
due to end of the year activities.
Looking forward to your full names, home address and phone numbers for
us to give you the access code of our Telephone Banking System to help
us transferring your fund to your local account through our new
technology system without any atom of delay.
Yours
Faithfully
Kevin O' Connor
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