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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: "UNITED STATE BANK U.S.A" <bengamin674@gmail.com>
Reply-To: unitedstatebankusa2003@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:39:39 -0700
Subject: MR CHRIS WALLER

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UNITED STATE BANK OF AMERICA USA
CONTRACT #: MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009,
Swift Code: USA KPL PK,
A/C#: 32960612449g8
Our Ref: USA/IRD/CBX/022/04
Email: UNITEDSTATEBANKUSA2003@GMAIL.COM

IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT OF US$8.M EIGHT MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS
NOTIFICATION
Attn: Contract Beneficiary,
From the records of outstanding contractors due for Payment with the Federal
Government of united state BANK of america, your Name and company was
discovered as next on the
list of the outstanding contractors who have not yet received their
payments.
As the new united state Governor, I want to pay all outstanding payment
which
was misused by the former Governors of the office, secondly I have only
seven
working days to do this you are therefore to kindly re-confirm to me the
followings information:

1]YOUR FULL NAME------------------
2]YOUR COUNTRY AND HOME ADDRESS------------
3]YOUR OCCUPATION OR UR COMPANY-----------
4]YOUR WHATSAPP NUMBER----------------
5]YOUR IDENTITY CARD OR PASSPORT ----------------

Upon the reconfirmation of the above information, your payment will be
made directly into your nominated bank account directly from the united
state bank of america U.S.A
which will be done directly from my office, as soon as I conduct a
proper investigation from my office You can email me via as soon as
you receive this email for further details.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Chris Waller
Executive Governor,united state bank [U.S.A]
REPLY TO[UNITEDSTATEBANKUSA2003@GMAIL.COM]

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