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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:

Fraud email example:

From: "GLENN WOOD" <info@citibank.org> (may be fake)
Reply-To: glleenwood212@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:03:19 +0200 (EET)
Subject: URGENT RECONFIRMATION

Bank of England
Thread needle Street
London EC2R 8AH
Email: glleenwood212@gmail.com

Payment Notification

I am Glenn Wood a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), of the
Bank’s Court of Directors and of the Governor's Executive Team, Bank of
England (BOE). I was appointed to my current position on the 1st of March,
2009. After my appointment, I had to carry out intensive survey on past
affairs and transactions on individual banks and came to discover that
your fund valued at a total sum of $10,530,000.00 with accumulated
interest has been termed unclaimed in our treasury under the headship of
one of the major British Commercial Banks (Citibank, London " Registration
Number:NO.1026167).

After proper investigations carried out by the Bank of England's Monetary
Policy Committee (MPC) Bank of England, technicalities have been put in
place to pay all the due funds that has exceeded the date stated in their
deed of deposit their pending fund on and before the 30th of January,
2010, this development in accordance to the recently formulated Fund
Regulatory Policy devised by the Bank of England and the following Fund
Regulatory Bodies: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), Federal
Financial Monitoring Service (FFMS), Federal Crimes Enforcement Network
(FCEN) and the Foreign Assets Control (FAC) .

Sequel to the information received, scrutinized and confirmed legitimate
by the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (FFMS) the British Baking ACT.
without further delays, you are hereby advised to provide the following
information for a 24 hours fund transfer directly from the BANK OF ENGLAND
to your designated bank account.


PERSONAL INFORMATION

Fund Transfer Beneficiary:
Beneficiary's Present Address
Contact Phone numbers:
Next of Kin:

BANKING DETAILS:

Receiving Bank's Name;
Bank's address:
Bank's Toll Free:
Swift code


You are hereby advised to provide the above details with a scanned copy of
an identification such as your drivers license/work id/ international
passport for the immediate processing of your fund.

Note that, no further payment should be made to this or any other office
in regards to the transfer your money as long as you proof of payments
made and you have overall met the exact requirement in accordance to the
United Kingdom Banking ACT of 1999.

Your immediate response is needed to facilitate your transfer either today
or tomorrow.

GLENN WOOD
Monetary Policy Committee
Bank of England
Thread needle Street
London EC2R 8AH
Email: glleenwood212@gmail.com



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