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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:
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
- "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
- This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Fraud email example:
From: FOREGN DEPARTMENT <cbnbans@gmail.com>
Reply-To: drKen101@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:38:13 -0700
Subject: Re PAYMENT FUND
United bank for Africa - Africa's
Global bank head office address
Uba house 57 marina p.o. box 2406
Lagos Nigeria
COMPENSATION PAYMENT FUND
Good Day
I am delighted to write you this email regardless the instruction
given to me by the United Nations in collaboration with the America
Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria of which I have been asked
to sign off all the unpaid approved compensation fund ($6.5M) due to
inability to meet up with the required payment procedure with the
approved bank for over 2years as unclaim fund.
I don’t want to state my reprisal because I know quite sure that at
the end of this transaction you will have every reason to rejoice
possibly and compensate me for my effort and good job well done. I can
also understand probably you had some sort of experience scandalously
before in your payment file as a result of a lot of bank officials
contacting you promising to realease your fund to you through the back
door without going through the proper procedure by trying to use all
kinds of payment without documentation/approval of which they end up
asking for fees and charges indefinitely,well be rest assured that we
are not interested or extorting any money from you once all the
processes are met for the possible Bank to Bank wire transfer to any
of your provide Bank Account.
I assure you of your fund hitting your account within the next 48hours
you respond to this message requirement to enable us decide on the
next action to be taken.
1.phone number/ banking detail swhere the fund will be transfer to.
Dr Kennedy Uzoka,
Group Managing Director,
United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA)
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