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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: RBS <test@test.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 22:08:10 +0100
Subject: Important Alert


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Dear Customer,
While performing customers account maintenance and verification procedur=
es, we have detected a slight error in your account billing information.
We have been trying to contact you. However, we are unable to reach you. T=
o protect your financial assets and personal information's against unauthor=
ised use at no cost, we have temporarily restricted access to your account =
and certain features within our online banking and mobile banking system. S=
uch as (Receive payments, Make payments or withdraw funds).
This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information. (eg: address, phone)
2. Submitting incorrect information during login process.
3. Too many incorrect login attempts.
In-order to safeguard your account and to restore your online banking acce=
ss, we require you to complete our account verification process immediately=
. This would help us in safeguarding your account & personal information fr=
om unauthorised access in future. If you are unable to complete our request=
within 24 hours, please contact us or visit your local branche.

Account Security Update
Please note: Failure to comply with our account verification process may=
lead to permanently suspension of access to our online and telephone banki=
ng service.
How does it work?
If we detect either of the reasons above, we may decide that we want to co=
nfirm that it's really you. You must complete all steps otherwise you will =
not be able to use the online service until we have completed additional se=
curity checks. =


Best regards, =

RBS Online Security Team.

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