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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: "World Bank USA" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <worldbankusa9@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 15:29:32 -0700
Subject: Re: Dear Fund Beneficiary

The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Our Ref: wb-2001-y-transfer014

Date: 28th of Sept 2014

Dear Fund Beneficiary

We sent an attached copy of your payment advisory letter in our previous email which you have not acknowledged till now. The payment advisory letter was sent to you in favor of the stated account below which a claimed attorney of yours confirmed:

Bank Name: KeyBank National Association
Address: 201 North Main Street
Tooele, UTAH 84074
Routing number: 124000737
Account Number: 440802027514
Account Name: James Fad

Bank of American drew our attention as the transfer has been on "Transfer in Progress" for the past 3 banking days, which is not supposed to be. We informed the IMF to verify the cause and also hereby advice that you get back to us in confirming if the above stated account is yours. We do understand that email accounts could be hacked by criminals and mostly these fraud internet scams are common in Africa - Nigeria, even in Europe and Asia.

Report from Interpol and EFCC even confirmed that some of the criminals who defraud innocent people have been arrested and you are warned to stop every communication with them if you do and follow directives from the World Bank as we have given. They sent us video clips of their arrest and prosecution, you can as well watch through
youtube below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4fSzMhXD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH4jeuYeTfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMNmIXUY_hM

We will send to you a secured encrypted link to view the transfer, which on confirmation, we will give you further directives and confirmed/verified contact details of the Central Bank Governor to reconfirm your account who will secure approval from the IMF, thereafter the transfer will be rescheduled your confirmed/verified account. Attached file is my Identity Card.

But in the meantime, you are requested to confirm if the above account is your account as claimed to be by your attorney.


Yours truly,

Mr. George F. Moore
Auditor-General, Internal Auditing/Legal Advicer
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA

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