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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: "SKY BANK PLC" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <info@bnparibsn.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:53:42 -0500
Subject: RE: DID YOU SEND HER TO CLAIM IT???

SKY-BANK INTERNATIONAL
108 Canada Square
London Rd,E14 5HQ
Our Ref: TTD/210L
Your Ref: R02/9182

Ref: Payment of $1,500,000 approval.

Attention Beneficiary,

We received instruction few days from our correspondence bank ( BNP PARIBAS BANK ) to transfer your awarded payment fund valued sum of $1,500,000 into your contract account which we are on the process to open an online banking account on your name and forward to you the account information so that you can access your fund into your regular account in your country by your self But we are surprise this morning when we are about to open your online banking account and received another email from Ms Diane L. Mcallister whom claim to be your representative with a letter of trust certificate telling us that she's your next of kin and you left an instruction to her for the claim of your(deposited fund $1,500,000 US Dollars) Here are the below account information she forwarded to us to transfer your fund into her account.
The account which she forward to us as follow.

Bank of America
St. Petersburg, Florida , USA
Account Holder Name:Diane L.Mcallister
Account No.003767127294
Routing No. 063100277
65 Jabotinsky St #2
Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 54224

Please, Do reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you and has your authority to receive your fund.If this lady is not your representative, You are requested to fill and send this information for verification purpose, so that your fund value of $1,500,000 united state dollars will be paid to you through online banking method. kindly Contact

PARIBAS BANK OF GREECE.
Foreign Remittance Department
Bnp Paribas Bank of Greece
6, Sansad Marg,
Athens- 110 001,Greece
Email: info@bnparibsn.com

FILL THE SPACE BELOW TO ENABLE THE AUTHORIZED OFFICE TO CONTACT YOU AS SOON AS YOUR EMAIL RECEIVED.

1. YOUR FULL NAME.
2. YOUR TELEPHONE.
3. FAX.
4. DATE OF BIRTH.
5. SEX.
6. YOUR OCCUPATION.
7. YOUR ADDRESS.

HOWEVER, SEND THE DETAILS TO BNP PARIBAS BANK VIA THE ABOVE CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS, WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENT DETAILS TO THE SAID Ms Diane L. Mcallister, IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN WORKING DAYS FROM TODAY, WE WILL PROCESS AND RELEASE THE FUND INTO Ms.Diane L. Mcallister.

Your Sincerely,
Dr.Alf Erik Arneson
Sky-Bank International.

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