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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: "MR. WILSON STEWART." <samuelzikanga@gmail.com>
Reply-To: royalbank_scotland@accountant.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:29:21 -0700
Subject: COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER

Dear Email Owner/Fund Beneficiary,
COMPENSATION FUNDS PAYMENT ORDER

This is to inform you that, we have been working towards the
eradication of fraudsters and
scam Artists in the world/Africa with the help of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU), the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) and FBI. We have been able to track down so many
of this scam artist in
various parts of the world/African countries, which includes (Nigeria,
United Kingdom, USA, Europe,
Ghana, Cameroon and Senegal/india) and they are all in Government
custody now, they will appear
at International Criminal Court (ICC) Hague (Netherlands) soon for
Criminal/Fraud Justice.
During the course of our investigation, we have been able to recover
so much money from these scam
artists.

The United Nations Anti-Crime Commission and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) have
ordered that the money recovered from the Scammers to be shared among
5 Lucky people around the
World for compensation. This Email/Letter is been directed to you
because your email address and country
name was found in one of the scammer Artists file and computer
hard-disk while the
investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being
compensated with the sum of
$25.000.000.00 (US$) (TWENTY FIVE MILLIONS United State Dollars).
We have arranged your payment to be paid to you direct to your bank
account in your state. To
receive the above fund, you are therefore advised to contact the
(Royal Bank of Scotland) and you are advised to send them only $200.00
and we are here to monitor this payment and the transfer
communications to avoid further delay or misdirection of your fund.

Kindly contact the Royal bank now with the bellow contact details:

Contact: Chief Executive Officer and President, Manager John Shepherd.
Compensation Fund Transfer Dept.
Contact Email: royalbank_scotland@accountant.com

Contact him now and forward the below details to him:

1. Your Full Names and bank details
2. Your Age:
3. Occupation:
4. Cell/Mobile Number:
5, Your Id

Yours in Service.
MR. WILSON STEWART.
United Nations Funds Investigation Unit.
Please make sure you are a scam victim to respond to this Email if
this mail come as an
Error Ignore it and Delete Immediately

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