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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: Ecobank Plc <telex.pncbankpa@gmail.com>
Reply-To: ebponline@yandex.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 20:07:59 +0100
Subject: Re:Credit Instruction

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Good Day,

This is to officially inform you that we have today received a credit
instruction from the World Bank and we have also verified your payment
file and found out that, why you have not received your fund is
because you have not fulfill the obligations given to you in respect
of your payment.

Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the
none officials in the bank in attempt to secure the release of the
fund to you. We wish to advise you that such an illegal act like this
have to stop if you wishes to receive your payment since we have
decided to bring a solution to it.

Right now, we have arranged your payment through our swift payment
system such as Swift Wire Transfer, ATM Debit Card or Diplomatic Cash
Payment. You are required to indicate how you would like to receive
your fund by contacting us back and also send the following
information as listed below.

1. Full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Contact Address (p.o box not acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Attach copy of your identification

We have been Mandated by the World Bank to issue out the sum of
US$5,800,000.00 for this fiscal year 2022. Also for your information,
you have to stop any further communication with any person(s) or
office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment and because
of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is
(ECO-PAYMENT22) so you have to indicate this code when contacting us
back by using it as your subject.

Wait for your expedite response.

Yours in service,

Mr. John O. Aboh
Chairman, Ecobank Nigeria Plc

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