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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: "Dr Jose Antonio" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <antoniondrjose009@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 06:44:10 +0800
Subject: This is Your Ref: USCTB/IRU/SCB/4.8/WI/019

Citibank N.A, California United States of America.
Our Ref: USCTB/IRU/SCB/4.8/WI/019


Please read carefully before replying because i can't explain any thing
else apart from this mail sent to you.

Your payment files from two different banks,( Central Bank Of Africa,
United Bank Of Africa) has compiled and submitted your Compensation Funds
to my desk last week friday morning for review. The total sum owed to you
by the two banks mentioned above was summed up to the total of
US$4,800,000.00 (Four Million Eight Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars).

Now the fund has been totally kept in one particular Escrow account (non
deductible) here in the Citibank N.A, California United States, while
waiting for accreditation to your personal 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 still 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 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and
International Criminal Police Organization(INTERPOL) detected their evil
plans and therefore call for the submission of your payment file to
Citibank N.A,, so we can personally handle the payment assignment to
ensure that you receive your funds accordingly.

Now, all modalities regarding your fund release has been put in place here
in the Citibank N.A, California United States, thus, your funds has been
made ready for transfer in our escrow transfer system, what we need from
you now is to inform us medium of your choice which you want us to
transfer your funds so we can expedite action for the accreditation of
your funds into your account immediately.I want to
also inform you that you have to obtain a CLEAN BILL OF RECORD
CERTIFICATE, kindly

reply to this mail for the instruction on how to receive your funds.

Below are the information needed for now for your transaction;

Full Name:
Current Address:
Country:
Cell Phone #:
Occupation:
Sex:
Picture of Your ID card:

Note: If you prefer to receive your funds in form of an ATM Visa Card, we
could load and ship your Visa Card to your address which will permit you a
daily withdrawal limit of US$1800 or write a cashier check to you, which
can be deposited in any bank of your choice.

In anticipation for your urgent cooperation.


Yours sincerely,
Citibank N.A, California United States of America.
Mr. Charles Gates,
Contact person Of the Citibank N.A

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