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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 Tony Woods <abbanafnan00@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrtonywoods@outlook.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:52:44 +0100
Subject: ATTN:BENEFICIARY US$3,500,000.00USD

ATTN:BENEFICIARY US$3,500,000.00USD

We are to Notify you about the latest development concerning your
payment that is left in our custody, besides,you are given a bill of
Sum in order to receive your payment of $3,500,000.00 usd which we
didn’t hear from you for some time now. Hence,we are now offering a
Special BONUS to help all our customers that are having their payment
in our custody due to high prices. In other words we are now
requesting that you should pay only the sum of $25 to receive your
funds payment abandoned in our custody by online transfer or atm card
if you wish so.

so you are requested to send the fee $25 only by ITunes Card,or Google
Play CARD,’Steam Wallet is also ACCEPTED because it can be
redeemed to cash all we needs is the picture of the card,

I will be forwarding to you the account logging details to enable you
access your funds online and proceed on transfer to your designated
bank account in any part of the world Or Tracking Number Of Your ATM
Card Delivery to enable you Monitor the Arriver of your ATM without
any further delay as soon as you update us copy of the required Fee
$25 to take note.

Thank You and God Blessed.
Mr Tony Woods
CEO/GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR
ACCESS BANK PLC

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