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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "foreign remittance department" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
- "foreign exchange" (Banks mentioned in 419 scams are always fake (real banks don't communicate using mobile phones or free webmail addresses))
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: <ri20@ru412.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <reservebkindiatransfer@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 09:47:06 +0530
Subject: FUNDS

THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA, 6, SANSAD MARG,JANPATH, NEW DELHI,H.O. 110001,NEW DELHI.

IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION IN CONNECTION WITH FOREIGN EXCHANGE COMMISSION

On Behalf of the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Governor (Dr. Raghuram Rajan) and the Government of India in Conjunction with the United Nations and the World Bank, we the Foreign Remittance Department of the Reserve Bank of India wish to notify you as a beneficiary of 1,000,000.00 GBP (One Million Great British Pounds Sterlings) in compensation of scam victims. This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA and the Government of India to pay 150 victims of internet and various scams 1,000,000.00 GBP Each. This also includes every contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems and financial problem, and people who have been scam/cheated on the internet in the past. Your E-mail ID were listed and approved for this payment as one of the beneficiary of this compensation amount.

According to the last meeting held here in the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Foreign Department, it was brought to our notice of the various types of scam that is going on in our world today and in India, and this scammer's are even using the name of the RESERVE BANK OF INDIA (RBI) and other reputable Esteem Bank around the world to scam people. Today many people have lost their properties, money and many have gone in bankruptcy because of these INTERNET CRIMINALS. This scam as investigated are in form of Fake online lottery, fake online loan, fake emails talking about huge amount of funds transfer such as next of kin, proposal, proposal for bank transfer and other form of fake internet scamming activities.

In order for us to proceed with the remittance of your compensation funds to you, you are to fill and send the below information:

[1] Full Names: ___________________ [2] Contact address: ______________
[3] Country: _____________________ [4] Direct Mobile No: ____________
[5] Occupation: _________________ [6] Sex/Age: ____________________
[7] Marital Status: ________________ [8] Other Email Address: _____________
[9] Scan copy of your Identification Proof [10] Your Bank Account Details: _____________

You are to send your information immediately for the processing and transfer of your compensation funds into your bank account. Do be in form that this compensation is 100% true and genuine so you have to take it seriously without any doubt. And if you have not received any scam email or have not been scammed before, do get us inform so that we stop the allocation of this compensation funds to you immediately as we do not want to allocate this compensation funds into wrong hands. Also you are not to duplicate or communicate with any one about this because we are still in trace of those internet hoodlums and criminals.

YOUR'S SINCERELY,
DR. STEVEN GRAY
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT / FOREIGN EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Banking Unit
(RBI)

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