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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.
- 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.
- karenmichelle477@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: Karen Michelle <jamieiannone1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: karenmichelle477@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:59:41 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION PLEASE!!!!!!
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How are you doing today, I hope you are doing good? I have a good
news for you and I guess it will interest you to know what it is, I am
Karen Michelle from California United States Of America.
I contacted you to know if you have received your compensation fund
which I have received mine last week from agent mark Jacob.
I have been scammed over 20 times by different people claiming to be
the rightful agent to deliver my fund while they are extorting my
money and scam me, I know you may have being swindled by those
unscrupulous people whom you have sent money in the course of getting
one fund or the other which is not real and I have been through it
before I received my fund last week from agent mark Jacob.
I got your email on his list which he said that the list is the list
of people he will deliver their funds and your details is next to mine
so I decided to contact you to know if he has delivered yours yet but
if not then get back to me here on my email karenmichelle477@gmail.com
and I will give you more information about the agent, thanks and God
bless you.
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