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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: Standard Capital Finance Bank <test@mailtry.tfomsrx.ru>
Reply-To: <standardcapitalfinancebank@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 01:15:05 +0200
Subject: Dear: Customer

STANDARD CAPITAL FINANCE BANK PLC
TENNESSEE FRIENDSHIP TN 38034
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 
Dear: Customer
 
On behalf of  bank managements i am contacting you today the 21th day of June 2021 on the update on this last process  of  Converting your total funds from Euros  to US dollars  which is why you were on able to receiver your united nations compensation funds as the funds  has been transferred to you by the united nations  from  euros account and account in your country can only accept United States Dollar, after three meeting with the managements of  united nations compensation which ended on 18th of June 2021 we the standard capital  finance bank managements have been mandated to issue a new ATM MASTER CARD  worth $10.7 million us dollars to your name   which is the last process to enable you start making your cash  withdraws  of  $50,000:00 out from your new atm MASTER card each day  and as we have stated in meeting with the  managements of united nations compensation that this last currency
Converting process will only take  24 working hours which your ATM MASTER CARD is now  ready for shipment to your address.
 
 
Thank you for banking with us
 
Regards
Mr. Eric Phillip
Email: customerservice@scfbplc.com
Tel: +1(443) 620-0284

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