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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: "Winfried D. Walker" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <sjgatford@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:48:26 -0700
Subject: Attention: Honorable Beneficiary!!!

Lloyds TSB Bank Plc.
>From the desk of Ahmad G. N. Mualla.
Fancyhill 103-105, Portree IV51 9BZ,
Isle of Skye North and West Highland,
United Kingdom.
 
Attention: Honorable Beneficiary.
 
Your name & E-mail id appeared in our payment schedule list of beneficiaries that will receive their funds in this 2nd quarter payment of the year for poverty alleviation program World Bank Scam Victims compensations. Your E-mail i.d was mentioned by our security intelligent monitoring database as one of their victims of the operations as was noted down from the Microsoft, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to anyone or who so ever, for any reason what so ever, the secret service is already on trace of the criminals. You will receive your compensations payments either by Bank direct wire transfer to your destination local account or Online Banking System.
 
We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we hear from you. We wish to inform you that the board of trustees and management of LLOYDS BANK COMPENSATION TEAM has finalized and have being given an Immediate transfer approval order by the United States of America Treasury committee Board of Governors Federal Reserve Bank America, by following means of choice below for your own security reasons.
 
Now your new Payment, LLOYDS TSB BANK Approval No; WB5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021. Your payment inheritance fund is  GBP 6.800.000.00 (Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) only.
 
I hope this is clear. Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk. Respond to this email with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released.
 
Requested Details for onward verification.
 
FULL NAME...........................................
DATE OF BIRTH.......................................
POSTAL/ADDRESS....................................
GENDER......................................................
NATIONALITY.........................................
OCCUPATION..........................................
MOBILE TELEPHONE.................................
EMAIL ADDRESS......................................
SCAN COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY...................
 
Yours Faithfully.
Winfried D. Walker.
Director I.R D.
Lloyd Bank.
London

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