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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: "Customer care Dept." (may be fake)
Reply-To: <customercaredept.rbi@dgoh.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 04:17:23 +0530
Subject: Your Ref: FcA426

FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA.
Payment Ref No:RBILQHD
Reg.No: Qf29d
        Ref: Payment of $1.5 million approval.       
 
Attention Beneficiary,
We received instruction few days from our correspondence bank HSBC to transfer your awarded payment fund valued sum of $1.5 million into your Contract account which we are on the process to open an online banking account on your behalf and forward to you the account information so that you can access your fund into your regular account in your own bank by yourself But we are surprise this morning when another email came from Mr.Vadoliya Bhaskar Dineshbhai whom claim to be your representative with a letter of trust certificate telling us that he's your next of kin and  you left an instruction to him for the claim of your Deposited fund (One Million,Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) Here are the below account information he forwarded to us to transfer the fund into this account.
The account which he forward to us as follow.
Account Holder Name:- Vadoliya Bhaskar Dineshbhai
Bank Account No:-31655966456
Bank Name:- State Bank Of India
Bank Code:-3829
Bank Branch:Jagnath Plot(Rajkot)
Please, do reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if this man is from you and has your authority to receive your fund. If this man is not your representative, please do provide all your identity and send us current information for verification purpose, so that your fund value of $1.5 Million united state dollars will be paid to you through bank to bank wire transfer.
FILL THE INFORMATION BELOW TO ENABLE THE AUTHORIZED BANK TO LIFT UP YOUR FUND TRANSFER TO YOUR DESIGNATED BANK.
1. Your Name:
2. Address:
3. Your Telephone/Cell Phone:
4. Age:
5. Sex:
6. Your Occupation :
However, We shall proceed to issue all payment details to Mr.Vadoliya Bhaskar Dineshbhai,If we do not hear from you within the next seven working days from today then we will process and release the fund to Mr.Vadoliya Bhaskar Dineshbhai.
Customer care Dept.
Foreign Department.
Reserve Bank of India.

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