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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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Fraud email example:

From: "Jens Weidmann" <jensweidmannjgh@mail.com>
Reply-To: "Jens Weidmann" <jensweidmann.bisswitzerland@outlook.com>,
jensweidmann.bisswitzerland@outlook.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 06:31:07 -0700
Subject: Get back to us for your fund >>...mn

From: Bank for International Settlements
Basel, Switzerland.

To: All Beneficiaries.

We are contacting you following the outcome of the final meeting held on the 15th June, 2021 with United Nations, World Bank, IMF, Federal Reserve Bank, European Union, Financial Seervice Authority UK, Central bank of Nigeria, Asian/Middle East Financial Regulatory Commissions and
our humble office.
This is in regards to the settlement/compensation of some fund to the intended recipients whose contracts fund, inheritance fund, winning/lottery fund and other pending transaction have not been paid.

Therefore, to reduce and aliviate poverty on the concerned beneficiaries, all the above mentioned unions and financial authorities of the world came together with a resulition as follow:-

1. To Settle and compensate the sum of $12.5 million to any beneficiary whose cliam is above $10 million.
2. To settle and compensate the sum of $6.5 million to any beneficiary whose cliam is below $10 million.
3. The settlement and the release of the payment will be concluded within 10 banking days once the due process is followed.
4. The settlement/compensation will be carried out by the unaniously approved bank which is All Financial Bank of Texas. The bank details will be furnished to you once we receive your response.

THESE ARE OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS:-

1. You will stop all further communication with any person, office or financial institution even if they are related with the offices mentioned above. Every other offices have been asked to stop further dealings with you since they were not able to release your fund til now.
Note: This Settlement/payment will not be paid to you if we find out that you are still dealing with anybody in regards your payment.
2. You will keep the payment arrangement to yourself alone to avoid distraction thereby joepardazing our effort to pay you.
3. You must provide a document showing the amount you are pursuing, i.e a proof of fund ownership document, fund origin document etc. BUt you can contact us if you don't have any or you have lost your copy.
4. The ONLY PAYMENT will be asked to pay is a ONE TIME Application and Filling fee of $345 ONLY. The paying bank will explain better on this aspect.

FInally, we apologize for all your past experience in the hands of some imcompetent officials and some fraudsters.
We assure you the release of your settlement/compensation within the stipulated time as agreed above as long as you meet up our terms and contions.

Yours Faithfully.
Jens Weidmann
Chairman,Bank for International Settlements
Basel, Switzerland.

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