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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.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: Usman Mohammed <reallifecontact733@gmail.com>
Reply-To: offico362@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:52:09 +0100
Subject: are you ready to travel for your fund payment
Dear Sir ,
Be informed that you will need to travel to any of our offshore
payment center in any of this Countries as mentions below for your
fund payment of $10.5M United State Dollars
1- DUBAI
2- INDONESIA
3- TURKEY
4- SPAIN
5- UNITED KINGDOM
6- SOUTH AFRICA
7.FRANCE
You are at this point advice to pick any of the above mentioned
Country you can be able to travel to by next week for the payment of
your fund,Hence i requested you to give this the urgent attention
needed so that you can be able to make this trip come next week.
Regards
Usman Mohammed
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