419 scam: "Payment Alert"<honourable@jrr.office> Good News about your fund payment confirmation,reply with your details now

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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:
- "western union" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "mtcn" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "million united state dollars" (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)
- ",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)
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
- "jehjohnson123@barid.com" (this email address has been used in a known scam)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Western Union money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. It is the preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.

Fraud email example:

From: "Payment Alert" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.thomaswilliams@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:04:54 +0100
Subject: Good News about your fund payment confirmation,reply with your details now

APPROVAL OF YOUR OVERDUE LONG AWAITED FUND PAYMENT.

Attn: Beneficiary,

Congratulations and this is to finally inform you today that approval of your fund has been sucessfully issued in the name of One (Mrs.Tina Sanchez) for the final transfer of your long awaited overdue inheritance fund after the just concluded meeting which lasted for 5hour with her as part of our compensation for all Scam victims with the sum of $5,000,000.00 (FIVE Million United State Dollars Only) approved as part of the World Bank, mass assisted project funds.

This compensation involves business investment failure, Inheritance, Contracts, Lottery and E.T.C. The mass assisted fund was approved by the World Bank to settle all beneficiaries who have been involved as Scam Victims in the long hope to receive their inherited fund as part of the resolution exercise signed today during the just concluded meeting with this woman Mrs Tina Sanchez who has been here for almost a week to persuade the transfer immediately into her account with the below stated account details, she said that you are dead and she is the one you signed to receive your rightful fund on your behalf.

I presume you must have been wondering why after paying all the fees requested by those crooks nothing was paid to you rather they enjoyed your hard earned money without remorse of their evil deeds. Note, your fund was approved so that you can invest into your own private business, as part of our financial growth to settle all Debt, as reconciliation from the World Bank, and we have agreed to waived all outstanding charges as a way of compensating you for the lost as Scam-victim, in the past. Having waived all the charges for you, bear you in mind that you will only be required to pay for the processing VALIDATION/UPDATING of your payment file to your current details which cost you the amount $189 USD , which remains the only charges expected of you to pay for the final receiver of your approved long awaited inheritance overdue payment designated to be release to you as a compensation fund without any delay.

My reason for contacting you once again is to confirm truly if you are dead as this woman Mrs.Tina Sanchez is ready to pay the fee for the VALIDATION/UPDATING of your payment so that we can transfer the money into her account as quickly as possible with the below account details.

Bank NAME: BANK OF AMERICA
ACCOUNT NAME: TINA SANCHEZ
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 002857216549
SWIFT CODE: BOFAUS3N
ROUTING NUMBER: 026009593

Following the preparation to release your fund to her, Note, we want to confirm from you first if we should proceed in transferring the money into the above stated account since she stated that you are dead, and if after 48hrs we didn't hear from you, that means she is right and we will have no choice than to go ahead and wire the money into the provided account, but if you are still alive and did not authorize her, please confirm to us immediately so we can arrest her quickly and in return please re-confirm the following information for immediate release of your fund through ATM CARD or any means of your choice immediately for proper verification exercise.Forward your information as below:

1.Your Full Name:
2.Your Home Address:
3.Your Mobile Numbers:
4.You’re Occupation:
5.Identification Such As Your Valid Drivers License:

Furthermore, You are therefore advice to send your processing VALIDATION/UPDATING fees amount $189 USD through Western Union money Transfer or RIA to my secretary name as provided below .You are advice to send the fee Via WU or RIA only :

Give me the mtcn number# with the name of the sender and address.Your urgent response is highly needed to complete and facilitate the release of your fund to you urgently within the next 48hrs or else we have no choice than proceed with this Mrs Mrs Sarah Sanchez as your next of kin.

Thanks for your Co-operation and understanding.

From World Bank Group Branch,Africa and USA.
Contact here jehjohnson123@barid.com

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