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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: "Bank for International Settlements" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <privatemrslb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:52:09 +0100
Subject: You are so lucky....Congratulations!

Office of the General Manager
Bank for International Settlements
Headquarters: Basel, Switzerland
From: Mr. Agustín Carstens (Executive Vice President/General Manager)
 
 
Ref: Final compensation Payment Notification Release
 
Dear Beneficiary,
 
Sequel to the recent meeting held between the United Nations,FBI Cyber Division and other Cyber security agents across the globe to restore the dignity and Economy of Nations based on the Agreement with the World Bank assisted projects in partnership with the United Nations Compensation Commission, this message is for those who have been scammed or have trapped transactions in any part of the world and yet have not been compensated or received their payment due to government or IMF policies. A grand total of 1600 individual emails were selected across the Globe for this COMPENSATION PAYMENT which your email address is in the list submitted.
 
This Bank for International Settlements owned by 60 central banks, wish to inform you that we have officially received final compensation payment order from The United Nations Compensation Commission and the World Bank Grant for Farmers, Disables, Grassroots and liquidating Businesses to release your full Compensation amount of US$3.5 Million Dollars to you without any delay.
 
However, you are required to provide the followings Details below
 
{1}. Full Name and Address.
{2}. Confidential Tel, Cell.
{3}. Occupation
{4). Date of Birth(DOB).:
{5). Next of Kin:
(6). Scanned copy of your Driver's license or International passport
 
Please do provide the above information accurately to avoid any wrong payment to unauthorized person
 
We await your urgent compliance to this notification.
 
Thanks and God bless you.
 
Respectfully,
Mr. Agustín Carstens,
Executive Vice President/General Manager.
 
 
 

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