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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: Evgeniy Novinsky <ibrahimnuhu2091@gmail.com>
Reply-To: evgeniy.novinsky@aliyun.com
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:54:49 +0100
Subject: Please respond back
Attention:
I want to use this opportunity to say thank you all, for your prayers
and support. Though we are still stuck here in the south. Our
valuables have been successfully moved out of Ukraine with the help of
your prayers, we finally got most great and brave American minds who
are currently in the neighboring country waiting for our partner to
receive the Valuables from them.
I will be of both financially and materially grateful if you can help
me as a partner, meet up with them if possible to receive and secure
our valuables, pending when God says this situation stop to enable us
get out of this Hole.
Please respond back for more details.
Yours Truly,
Evgeniy Novinsky
Associate to Viktor Medvedchuk
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