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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: TSB <test@test.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:56:33 +0100
Subject: Important Mail


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Important Notification

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Please Note: While performing customers account maintenance and verifica=
tion procedures, we have detected a slight error on your account billing in=
formation. We have been trying to contact you. However, we are unable to re=
ach you.
To protect your account and financial assets against unauthorised use at n=
o cost, we have temporarily suspended access to your account and certain fe=
atures within our online banking system. Such as (Receive payments, Make pa=
yments or withdraw funds).

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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 log in process.
3, Logging from an unrecognised machine or device.
4, Submitting incorrect information during online payment process.
5, Too many incorrect log in attempt.
In-order to safeguard your account and to restore your online access, we r=
equire you to complete our account verification process. This would help us=
in safeguarding your account & personal information from unauthorised acce=
ss in future.

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Get Started
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Please note: Failure to comply with our account verification process may =
lead to temporary suspension of access to our online and telephone banking =
service. You must complete all steps otherwise you will not be able to use =
the online service until you have completed additional security checks.
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Best regards,
TSB Online Banking Team
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