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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: Klein Solomon <kleinsolomon565@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 20:06:07 +0800
Subject: YOUR FUNDS APPROVED DATE: 06/1/20200


I wish to use this medium to inform you that your compensation payment of
£18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand pounds) bank of
India have been approved for onward transfer to you via an ATM DEBIT CARD
which you will use to withdraw all the £18,500,000.00 in any ATM SERVICE
MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day
is £10,000.00 Only.

In regards to the recent meeting between the Bank of India and the Present
United Kingdom Government to restore the dignity and Economy of the
Nations, Base on the Agreement with the International Monetary Funds
Assistance to help and make the world a better place for all with the sole
aim of abolishing poverty. We have been having a meeting for the past 5
months which ended 2 days ago. The National Central Bureau of Interpol
enhanced by the Government of the United Kingdom and Federal Bureau of
Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the Government of India
to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to Foreigners and
Compensate all that have lost their hard earned money to the India
Fraudsters.

This email is to all the people that have had an unfinished transaction in
any part of the world, the bank of India have agreed to compensate them
with the sum of £18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand
pounds) This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received
their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or
international businesses that failed due to Government problems, Contracts
Sum, Lottery/Gambling etc. Your name and email was in the list Submitted by
our Monitoring Teams of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (Interpol
Police), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) Observers and this is why we are contacting you, this
have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to acknowledge this message by establishing a contact with
us only at this email: office.1976@rediffmail.com ). This funds has been
credited in ATM CARD for security purposes ok? So we shall send it to you
by DHL delivery Company, UPS, FedEx or by any means of your choice and you
can withdraw in any ATM Cash Point Machine Worldwide at the daily limit of
$10,000 USD. equivalent to all currencies

Acknowledge this message immediately for your ATM VISA CARD Delivery .

We are very sorry for the plight you have gone through in the past years.
Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accepting our
congratulations.

Thanks, Best Regards.
Rajasthan Jaipur
email: office.1976@rediffmail.com
Executive Director
Bank of India

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