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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: Kristalina Georgiever <ritahnagawa731@gmail.com>
Reply-To: kristalinag275@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 07:34:10 -0500
Subject: ATTENTION BENEFICIARY
what a pleasure to let you that we have reconciled with our logistic
department on the reimbursement of some fund spent by you during the
cause of your inadequate dealings with some importers who claim to be
staff in banks and other regional payment centers.
Our reconciliation teams with the prospectus instrument of the United
Nations after freezing suspected importers account. This support was
fully effective with the help of World Bank after a summit meeting in
United States, on the financial analysis on financial stability issues
fluctuating their economy with the international global standard.
After gathering of this sum, our logistic department gave us a list of
customers to be paid who fall victims to this importers due to
unawareness. And mode of payment was as well specified for proper
conducts and financial regulations to kick against criminality during
process of payment.
We have arranged your payment to be delivered to your destination
address, which is the latest instruction from International Monetary
Fund Reconciliation Office. The [IMF] delivery team will deliver the
funds to your home address.you are hereby selected as an honor for
this payment approval, which you are to acknowledge the receipt of
this mail in returning the required below information to avoid a
mistake.
*Full Name:
*Phone Number:
*home address
For your information, you have to stop any further communication with
any other person (s) or office (s) to avoid any hitches in receiving
your payment.
yours in service
kristalina G.
awaits your responds
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