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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: michealwilliam <michealwilliam@bol.com.br>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:06:24 -0200
Subject: CITY BANK PAYMENT NOTIFICATION?

Attn:

Following the meeting held early this morning by the federal executive
council of the government of LONDON, with the officials of United states government monitoring agencies (FBI, HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE IRS) in respect of all the outstanding payment (CONTRACT, INHERITANCE, own to all foreign beneficiaries. It was agreed that every payment should be released to beneficiary immediately without any further delay by the (CITY BANK OF LONDON)

In view of the above, your name was among the list presented to my office for verification and release of your FUND OF $25.7M. You are therefore required to confirm the following information's for the upgrading and issuance of your FUND:

A YOUR FULL NAME
B ADDRESS WHERE YOU WANT THE FUND DELIVERED TO
C DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER (WE WILL CALL FOR VERIFICATION
D OCCUPATION AND AGE
E A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY CARD (FOR IDENTIFICATION)

On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me with the above mentioned information.
Note, we hereby issue you with our code of conduct,which is (815) so you have to indicate this code when contacting this OFFICE,


Thanks for your co-operation.

Dr Micheal Williams
CITY BANK REMITTANCE OFFICER

DIRECT PHONE NUMBER +447045712178?

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