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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.
- aliabdul57800@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mr. Gouli Frank" <goulif18@gmail.com>
Reply-To: aliabdul57800@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 05:07:48 -0700
Subject: ATTENTION
ATTENTION:
We have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and scam
Artists with the help of the Organization of African Unity
(OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.
We have been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of
countries, they will appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon
for Justice.
During the course of investigation, we were able to recover some
funds from these scam artists and IMF organizations have ordered the
funds recovered to be shared among the 12 Lucky people listed around
the World as compensation.
This notice has been directed to you because your email address was
found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the
investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being
compensated with a sum of ($950,000.00) Nine hundred and fifty
thousand US Dollars valid into an (ATM Card Number 4061730945219566).
CONTACT BELOW EMAIL FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR ATM CARD.
Contact name:Mr Ali Abdul
Email Address: (aliabdul57800@gmail.com)
Position: Director.
Yours in Services
Mr. Gouli Frank
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