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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: "PDXGD" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <am@es-icabja.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:29:02 -0700
Subject: Re: Fund recovery

Hello,

We happily write to notify you that your name are shortlisted among those The United Nations Recovered their funds. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), United Nations (UN) appointed and engaged The financial recovery experts across the world, USA, Europe, Asian and Africa, etc., The Financial Ombudsman Service and Ashmore Asian Recovery Fund (ARF) etc., has been monitoring your several efforts to receive your fund, but unfortunately dishonest officials planned with fraudsters to frustrate you and run you down with endless fees and empty promises and they have fraudulent intention to divert your funds for their advantage.

The United Nations played video clip the Whois and internet satellite, cable captured and noted that dishonest officials have ruin you with advance fees, but the good news is all the funds is recovered and to avoid extraordinary charges again, we are mandated by the appropriate authority to pay you $4.5million via crytocurrency wallet address account or confidential door-to-door cash delivery payments every quarter until your total fund is transfer for you.

To enable us to confidently take the necessary steps so as to enable you receive your fund without further ado, you are advise to forward your following information below for proper documentations and to purge the discrepancies dishonest officials and fraudster created on your payment file because of their greedy efforts to divert/steal your funds. Your full name and address and telephone numbers and email scan identification and if you are capable to receive more than the amount stated above, please indicate the amount and we will file application to increase the volume.

Do not worry to ask why crytocurrency wallet address account or confidential door-to-door cash delivery payments in twenty-first century, we are trying to bypass charges and the success of this transaction is your total ability to keep the payment exercise top confidential.

Congratulations and we look forward to receive your instruction ASAP

Yours faithfully,
Daren AG. Antonio Martinez
General Manager
Ibercaja Banco,S.A.
Spain.

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