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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 of America <wu4348637@gmail.com>
Reply-To: americabankof41@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 01:50:00 -0800
Subject: To your Attention Beneficiary!

Attention Dear Esteemed Customer,


Contact Bank through this email below:(
americabankof41@gmail.com )

Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we
have in our database Before we proceed to set up Your Bank of America
Personal Residential Online Account, we want to bring to your notice
the simple procedure to achieve this aim with our bank under my
supervision.First and foremost the origin of funds has previously
advised in my initial e-mail was from the United Nation Organization
on unpaid payments from deposit funds from Africa, Asia and Eastern
Europe.Your name and contact information was retrieved from the short
listed data on the file of the United Nation Organization. If you try
to recollect, you would remember conducted some businesses in either
of the mentioned three tier regions (Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe)
and the purpose of selection was randomly made by the United Nation
Organization. Our bank stands out from all the presently distressed
banks in United State and Northern America to enable the payment of
your overdue transaction that has been pending for the past several
years released.

I want you to clearly understand that, I am here to serve you
according to the instruction from FBI, Homeland Securities of States
and United Nation Organization in particular.Moreover, I am not here
to play any kind of joke with you.The clearances from Federal Reserve
Bank and US Treasury Department to enable your online Transfer go
smoothly has been issue to our Bank.Meanwhile, you have to clearly
understand that, before we can set up a new Bank of America Personal
Residential Online Account for you here in our bank, the activation
fee must be paid by you and it will reflect in our database and your
original account which was instructed from United nation will be
activated.You have to send the sum of $150 dollars sephora gift card
or google play card to activate your Bank of America Personal
Residential Online Account but if you can't afford to pay the total
amount demanded then you can tell us how much you can afford and this
payment will be credited to your Online account before we can fully
remit the amount value of $15.5million United States Dollars.

This is why it is important that we first of all receive the Bank of
America Personal Residential Online Account Activation fee in our
bank, which in turn would record and file the payment of $150 dollars
by sephora gift card and google play card and forward the information
to our head quarters here in USA and it will get to us like $100
single into 1 and $50 1 and send it to us. Then the funds would be
received, in turn registered into the system and once it is sighted,
then an instruction would be issued out to that effect and the
documentation would be formally presented to Federal Reserve Bank just
as described in my most recent correspondence with you explaining.

Please, if you can not afford to pay this US$150 sephora gift card or
google play card don’t reply to my e-mail; we don’t have time to beg
you to set up Bank of America Personal Residential Online under our
supervision. once your buy the $150 usd dollars sephora gift card or
google play card make sure your send the Copy of the $150 usd dollars
sephora gift card or google play card here in Our Mail Address
(americabankof41@gmail.com).

In conclusion, it's my concern to demand your ultimate honesty and
cooperation to enable us expedite this transaction. I guarantee that
this process would be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
would legally protect you from any breach of Law.

Note: If you received this message in your SPAM/JUNK folder, it is
because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service
Provider and ours. We urge you to treat it genuinely. The information
contained in this e-mail is private & confidential and may also be
legally privileged.

Contact email address below: americabankof41@gmail.com

Regards,
Mr.Brian Moynihan
CEO of Bank Of America.

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