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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: "Payment Office" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <frederick.bonn@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 23:47:34 +0800
Subject: OUR CONCERNS.

WORLD BANK
1 Canada Square, 29th Floor Canary Wharf
Tower London E14 5DY United Kingdom

Ref Our: WBUK/209-S06-2017


Hello Sir/Madam,

RE: SCHEDULED FOR SECOND TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND.

Congratulations for the successful confirmation of the 30% of your total fund transfer which was made yesterday by our remittance department into your designated Bank account as stated below:

BANK: LAIKI BANK
ADDRESS: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE, LIMASSOL CYPRUS
SWIFT: LIKICY2N
AC NAME: PARGLOW INVESTMENTS LTD.
AC NUMBER: CY56 0030 0179 0000 0179 3211 9063

therefore we suggest that you confirm to us if we should proceed with the transfer of your 70% balance into the same account considering the readiness of our appointed Financial Organization to proceed with the Swift Wire Transfer today, as it is imperative we finalized all fund
transfer this week and report to our Auditors for their final records and updates of all paid funds to the fund beneficiary.

My name is Mr. Frederick Bonn, am in charge of World Bank Debt management organization UK. Ours is an organ carved out from the United Nations to assist fund creditors and beneficiaries like you to claim their overdue payments without much stress and expenses. We also enlighten creditors on the need not to spend money to get their genuine payments, assist them in getting such payments as well as provide funds for debtors of third world countries and developing world countries to offset their debts. We work with a World Bank Established bank for this purpose. Our monitoring unit and dragnets spreads all over the world in terms of debt repayments, movement of fund transfers and data gathering.

Finally, be informed that we are appointed by The United Nations, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, Financial Services Authority England and HM Revenue and Customs, as special selected official from World Bank to release all unpaid fund to the beneficiaries within 20 days. this March body have less than days to affect all payment. We are presently waiting for your reconfirmation email before we proceed with your balance payment.

Waiting for your prompt response.

Yours Faithfully.

Mr. Frederick Bonn
World Bank Representative
United Nations Organizations

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