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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: JOHN DAVID <ibrahimharunadeba1997@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mrbriantmoynihan90@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 13:48:31 +0100
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

Bank Of America.Corporate Office Headquarters.100 N. San
Francisco-Oakland, California 28255 USA.Our Ref:
BOA/IRU/SFE/15.5/WD/011 Working Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time(EDT) Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time(EDT) Notification Update Of Your Inheritance Fund Worth
The Sum Of $35,000,000.00 ( Thirty Five Million United State Dollars
) With This Bank.

ATTENTION.. dear, good day, how are you doing today,?

Please kindly email back to me as soon as possible today is 2th we
are not here for delaying please

Please you have to try all your possible best to get this fee send
immediately to avoid you loosing this your fund okay, we are looking
forward to hear back from you soon

I want you to comply and receive this fund successfully. Based on
this, I am giving you full assurance that you will receive your funds
of $35,000,000.00 ( Thirty five Million United state Dollars For safe
custody, your funds has been deposited in the United Nations Treasury
Department pending the receipt of the required $250 from you for the
processing of the funds payment to you.More-so, to avoid any security
of any kind interfering with your fund or any corrupt official
diverting your fund for their selfish interests.

Your email is received and taken due note of. I wish to notify you
that after going through the files of your payment submitted at my
desk, I thought it wise to contact you immediately because you don't
have to abandon your funds of $35,000,000.00 ( Thirty five Million
United state Dollars for any reason as this is your opportunity to
recover any money you might have lost in the past.

I want you to comply and receive this fund successfully. Based on
this, I am giving you full assurance that you will receive your funds
of $35,000,000.00 ( Thirty five Million United state Dollars For safe
custody, your funds has been deposited in the United Nations Treasury
Department pending the receipt of the required $250 from you for the
processing of the funds payment to you.More-so, to avoid any security
of any kind interfering with your fund or any corrupt official
diverting your funds for their selfish interests.

In this vein therefore, you will be required to send this $250
immediately for the processing of your funds payment to you either by
Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Card or by 24hours Online Transfer
(E-Transfer) to your designated account. Please note that this
payment requirement of US$250 is a compulsory payment which cannot be
deducted from your funds as the fund is placed under a strict
insurance bond before being approved to be paid to you in other that
nobody whatsoever will gain access to the fund until it is paid to
you. This is done so to protect the funds and for security reasons.

You are required to confirm your readiness to pay this $250 to enable
me give you the payment instructions.the payment instructions is that
you are to send the$250 through iTunes card or Google play like
this$100 $100 and$50

Moreover..if you don't know how to buy the iTunes card Google play I
will give you receive name which you will use to send it through money
Gram or would Remit Ria money transfer

The reason why we want you to send the fee through iTunes card or
steam wallet card is to avoid too much stress okay the easy way is to
buy iTunes card or steam wallet card once you go out to any Store Chop
you will get the iTunes card gold steam wallet card immediately no
more stress okay


Finally, I am giving you a 100% assurance that your funds will be
paid to you as soon as this processing charge is received from you.

God bless you.
Regards,
Dr Brian T Moynihan
Bank of USA

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