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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:
- "standardcharteredloans@mail2consultant.com" (This email address looks like addresses used in fake loan scams. Be suspicious of any lender who uses a free webmail address or who is based in different country from yourself.)
- 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.
- standardcharteredloans@mail2consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Standard Chatered Loans<info@loan.co.uk>
Reply-To: standardcharteredloans@mail2consultant.com
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 13:40:01 +0300
Subject: re
I 19m pleased to introduce you to Standard Chatered Loans & Investment. We =
bring together and manage a multi - billion dollar portfolio of local, regi=
onal and international investment, which we wish to re-invest through proje=
ct funding in investment loan to third party investors, project owners and =
general business facilitators on a 2% loan interest rate per annum on long =
& short term investment projects on a minimum and maximum face value of 50,=
000 Euro to 1 Billion Euro.
If this is of interest to you or you, we would love to be a resource for yo=
u. For more details regarding our funding program, please feel free to cont=
act us at standardcharteredloans@mail2consultant.com
I am respectfully asking you to drop a line even if this is of no interest=
to you at this moment.
Standard Chatered Loans & Investment.
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