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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: "Mr. David P. John" <dryoungbbrown@gmail.com>
Reply-To: banktransfer894@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 09:42:00 +0100
Subject: Your Funds $15.500, 000.00 million usd dollars

Headquarters: New York, NY, United States of America
Founded: 1914, New York City, New York, United States
ADDRESS: 33 Liberty St New York , NY 10045-0001
E-mail Address [ banktransfer894@gmail.com ]

>From the desk of Mr. David P. John

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences
we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems
with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund
beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.

Name: Mrs. Annette Stillman
Bank name: Citibank , Arizona , USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1723 Palmdale Bulv
Palmdale ca..93550

Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman
is from you or not so that the federal government will not beheld
responsible for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your
representative, you requested to fill and send this information’s for
verification purpose so that your fund valued ($15.500, 000.00 usd)
will be remitted in to your nominated bank account.

Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following

1: Name:
2. Address:
3. Company name:
4. Position:
5. Working Id/ int’l Passport
6. Age/sex:
7. Your Mobile number
8. Your Bank Account


As soon as this information is received, your funds $15.500, 000.00
million usd dollars will be wired to your bank account directly from
Federal Reserve Bank New York USA . We shall proceed to issue all
payments details to the said Mrs. Annette Stillman if we do not hear
from you within the next three working days from today. We are sorry
for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have
caused you. please if you did know this woman Mrs. Annette Stillman
please again it will only cost your sum of $100.00 Us Dollars I tunes
Card or Google play card to get Your Funds $15.500, 000.00 million usd
dollars Done to Your Bank Account Today i will be waiting for E-mail
this Morning Okay, please never ever fail to make this Transfer fee of
$100.00 Us Dollars I tunes Card or Google play card today since your
don't know the woman Mrs. Annette Stillman Okay,




You alerted reply urgent

Thanks.
Senior Citizen.

Mr. David P. John

The 11th president of Federal Reserve Bank NY USA

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