419 scam: "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network"<ocie@lolienday.cfd> Attention Sir/Ma

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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:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kristina@soborka.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:29:13 -0700
Subject: Attention Sir/Ma

FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK
2070 Chain Bridge Road, Vienna, VA
United States of America.

RE:ASSISTED REFUND PROGRAMME:

This letter serves to officially inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of scam in the world with the help of African Union (AU), United Nations Security Council (UNSC), European Union (EU), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Financial Intelligence center and FBI. We were able to track down up to 74 scam artists globally from (Canada, USA, Malaysia, Poland, Mauritius, Nigeria and Indonesia) and they are all in government custody facing criminal and fraud charges.

The United Nations board of trustee on humanitarian aids have ordered that part of the money recovered from the scammers should be shared among 27 Lucky people around the world for compensation and you are on the list as your email address was found in one of the scam Artists computer hard-disk hence we are contacting you, maybe you have been scammed or being tried to.

You are advised to contact our representative in South African (Dr. kristina Brown) on below contact details to direct you immediately for your International Bank transfer of USD$5,000,000.00.

These funds are in an escrow account of a financial crimes enforcement network for security purposes.

Contact details:
Name:
Email:
Telephone:
City:
Country:
Occupation:
Age:
Date of Birth:

Yours Faithfully,
Mr. KEN BLANCO DIRECTOR
(FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK)

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