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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: "HONOURABLE THOMAS ADAM NEWMAN," <ebank0558@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bankt422@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:24:29 +0100
Subject: FROM THE TD BANK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Good Day,

My name is Honorable Thomas Adam Newman , the TD Bank
Manager/Financial Director to the Government of the U.S.A Federation.
I wishes to inform you that after a long lasted meeting held by the
World Bank, United Nations & I.M.F including all the members states of
the United Nations countries representatives across the globe which
ended seven days,it was reportedly alarmed at the high rate of Scams
and Frauds attacks presently coming around the world and precisely
from West Africa countries to the innocent citizens of the world like
you by making things difficult for you to receive your funds amount of
US$8,600,000,00 United States Dollars,we have confirmed that this
funds is officially

assigned & belongs to you and as a result of this we deem it
appropriate to intimate you that the world representatives have agreed
during the meeting that we recall all UNPAID FUNDS from around the
globe especially from Africa & which we have already finalized the
recalling of the funds two days ago and the funds are presently lodged
with our bank here in U.S.A. The TD BANK, U.S.A is the bank presently
officially assigned & approve to release your funds to you to ensure
that your must receive your funds this time around
without any further scam acts by those fraudsters to you, we actually
presently made this step after the US financial protection and
monitoring unit dictates that innocent citizens like you had lost alto
of money to Fraudsters in Benin, criminals and scammers .

As a result of the above mentioned, we make this protective move due
to the inability & failure of those previous scam people you are
dealing with to complete the transaction for you. This is also in line
with the instructions of the USA Treasurer, the White House Financial
Authority & the government of the USA in general in compliance to
section 3 subsection 1(a) of the United States Financial Law enacted
in 2001 after an attack on our dear country on September 11,2001.

This payment program is approve that your total funds amount of
(US$8,600,000,00 United States Dollars) will presently be pay/release
to you through online bank account system. We have scrutinized and
ascertained approval that our bank, The TD BANK, U.S.A will
immediately release the said funds of yours to you by the online
banking

system which we deem 100% secure for you to presently receive your
funds. We are here to inform you that we have concluded all necessary
arrangements and your funds payment will immediately be effected
through the approve online bank account opening on your behalf. The
system is for our bank the The TD BANK, U.S.A to set up a personalized
on-line (real time) account for you where your total FUNDS amount of
(US$8,600,000,00 United States Dollars) will be deposited, following
which you can access the funds directly effect transfers by yourself
to any account of your choice to any bank in the world.

Hence you reply to this email and contact with our bank, The TD
BANK,U.S.A , we will issued your online account to you together with
the password through which you can use to access your online account
with us on this our official website https://tdbank.com and commence
your funds transfer to you personal bank account & also effect
transfers by
yourself to any account of your choice to any bank in the world. We
the TD BANK, U.S.A already have some of your information which we have
on your payment file with us here .
------------------------------ ---------
Meanwhile, to ensure that your information here on file with us is
appropriately correct,you are also required to immediately reply via
this below stated contact information.
E-Mail: bankt422@gmail.com
Website: https://tdbank.com
Thomas Adams Newman

You are to reconfirm / send us your full personal information,
including your phone and I.D, you have to send the stated details to
us the TD BANK, U.S.A for us to reconfirm and ensure that we are
actually dealing with the rightful owner of the funds and for the 100%
security and avoid an eventual paying out of the funds to a wrong
person, we need to urgently hear back from you so we can instantly
process and finalize the setting up of your on-line account. You may
wish to mention more detail regarding your funds in Kenya and the
failed transactions you had and still presently having in other
countries to facilitate the process. We are now set to immediately
arrange and credit your account

accordingly, and give you the relevant access codes. You will
thereafter access the funds directly and operate the account as you
may deem fit. Please treat this as very urgent as to facilitate urgent
due to portfolio constraints. As you reply and kindly revert to me for
further clarifications on any matter of concern, my dear , this is
still the opportunity for you and you have to urgently comply so that
your funds will immediately get to you custody. Still remember that
after (Some Days) you did not comply, then i Will have not other
option than to regard your funds as unclaim and divert it to Us
Government Reserve Fund Government Treasury.
Please treat this as a matter of urgency .
Sincerely Yours,
HONOURABLE THOMAS ADAM NEWMAN,
THE USA TD BANK MANAGER/FINANCIAL DIRECTOR THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE U.S.A FEDERATION.

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