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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: Mr George Martins <suyanto@jicoagung.co.id>
Reply-To: "kevinmartins30@yahoo.com" <kevinmartins30@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:36:44 +0700 (GMT+07:00)
Subject: Electronic Wire Transfer

Final Information,

Your payment files from three (3) different banks, Nat-west Bank of London,
Central Bank of Benin and Bank of America was compiled and submitted to my desk
this morning for review. The total sum owed to you by these 3 banks mentioned
above was summed up to the tune of US$8,500,000.00 [Eight Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars].

Now the fund has been totally lodged in one particular Escrow account (NON
DEDUCTIBLE) here in the Federal Ora-Bank in your name, while waiting for
accreditation to your personal/private bank account in any part of the world.

Meanwhile, after due scrutiny and verification, I confirmed that you have
fulfilled all the necessary obligations that will enable the release of your
payment to you, but yet your payment was not released to you due to one flimsy
excuses or the other from the Bank officials in charge of your payment, because
they had the intention of diverting your funds to their private accounts in
order to satisfy their selfish interest.

You are however lucky that we the management of the US Federal Reserved Bank
detected their evil plans and therefore call for the submission of your payment
file to us so we can personally handle the payment assignment to ensure that
you receive your funds accordingly.

Now all modalities regarding your fund release/transfer has been put in place
here in the Reserve Bank, thus, your funds has been made ready for transfer in
our sophisticated macro transfer system, so the only obligation you are to
fulfill now in order to receive your US$8,500,000.00 payment is the Electronic
Wire Charge of US$99.00 which you are to send to our receiving officer via, Wal-
Mart or Money Gram transfer with the bellow information.

Receiver Name: Andy Mbah
Country: Benin Republic
City: Cotonou
Question: Trust
Ansawer: Payment
Address: Agata Market 3152
Amount: $99.00 USD

Once you make the payment of $99.00 you should forward the information or attach
the payment slip to us immediately so we can expedite action for the
accreditation of your funds into your account immediately.

Note: If you can’t make payment via any of the above options, then we can give
you the full address to send Money Order or Bank Account Details to transfer
the Electronic Wire Transfer Cost of US$99.00 through Bank to Bank Wire Transfer
for a successful completion of your funds transfer into your Bank Account. If
you also wish to receive your funds in form of a Visa Card, we could load and
ship your Visa Card to your address which will permit you a daily withdrawal
limit of US$5000 or write a draft or check and sent to you. For any option
preferred, the US$99.00 still goes with it to enable us cover the conversion into
(Visa Card, draft or check), insurance and mailing charges. Hence the US$99.00 is
mandatory for any option chosen.

You can relate all customer care issues to Mr. Kevin Martins via
(martins.k91@yahoo.com ) (+229 98805922) our public relation officer via sms
or call. I will be looking forward to hearing from you.

In anticipating for your urgent cooperation

Yours sincerely,
Mr George Martins
The Current Chairman
UNITED Bank OF AFRICA.

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