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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: RESERVE BANK OF INDIA <rbionlinedesk@rbi.in>
Reply-To: indianreserve-philip@w.cn
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:24:12 +1000
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS BENEFICIARY!




REPUBLIC OF INDIA
Reserve Bank of India
Director Foreign Payment Department
6, Sansad Marg, New Delhi - 110 001, India.

Ourref: RBI/OOG/IND/002/11


Attn: Beneficiary,


This personal letter will finally come as a
surprise to you am highly
pleased to inform you of this wonderful good
news.


I have on my desk an outstanding payment of
US$5.5Million (Five
Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) of your
contract sum with the
Republic of India for transfer to the below
account:


ACC NAME: MRS. CHERIE VANSICKLE,
BANK/NAME: GREEATER IOWA CREDIT UNION
BANK ADDRESS: LEDD E, 30TH DES MOINES,
IOWA 50317 USA,
ACCOUNT/NUMBER: 000369505.
ROUTING/273972583,

This payment was stopped because several
applications have been
forwarded with different account
information’s
with several affidavits
of claim requesting for this transfer .I am sure
you are not aware of
this and the reason why this payment has not
been released up till
now, even after you have spent so much time
and money.


Investigations carried out by my office shows
that these applicants
are not the real owners of this payments and
their intentions is to
divert this payment to a wrong beneficiary. Are
you aware of this?
your email address is boldly written on your file,
hence I am using it
to contact you.


In view of this development i have therefore
approved this payment to
be delivered to you in bank to bank transaction
which the bank uses
for international transactions like this and also
in government
circles, honestly i believe that you will show
appreciation to me if
you receive this payment in cash through this
arrangement.

It is important that I inform you that during the
cause of our
investigation, we discovered that you were
among the beneficiaries of
contract payments who went into wrong hands to
get their payments and
were eventually duped, deceived and they
became frustrated, hence you
are advice to discontinue any communication
whatsoever you are having
with anybody who is promising to help you in
getting this payment.
Because no other person can release this
payment except me as i am
directly in charge of every payment approved by
the government such as
this.


For your own security reasons, this special
arrangement should be kept
very confidential between you and this office
only. You are kindly
hereby requested to confirm the receipt of this
mail and respond to
this arrangement immediately. upon my receipt
of your response, I will
furnish you with the details of your fund transfer.


Thanks for your understanding and
cooperation. .pls send your reply to
(indianreserve-philip@w.cn)



Yours Faithfully,


Mr. Adams J. Philip
Director Foreign Payment Department
Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

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