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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: "UBA BANK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ubaoffice.file@accountant.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:07:49 -0700
Subject: We apologize for the delayed

Dear Beneficiary , congratulation


UNCLAIMED FUNDS

We are pleased to announce that your EMAIL ADDRESS has
been selected to receive unclaimed contract inheritance funds
recovered from corrupt treasury security unit of Africa banks.

During the investigation IMF security section detected that some

wrong bank officials are diverting those funds to their private
account for personal use,and most of late contractors files
was destroyed, deleted out from record drive ,

IMF security Board performed their best to generate most contractors
contact email address from directory .

For this above reason they transfer those cash boxes
to international offshore bank for security reason.

Your cash box reference number are (UBS/VOL/US/PS20-451)

You are permit to receive your payment through bank wire transfer
or certified VISA ATM Card.

Contact (UBA) Email address: ubaoffice.file@accountant.com
with below information

FULL NAME: ==============
SEX==============
AGE: ==============
OCCUPATION:=============
CURRENT HOME ADDRESS:===========
OFFICE ADDRESS:===========

WHATS-APP TELEPHONE/CELL PHONE NUMBER.=========

CITY / COUNTRY: ==============

A COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION===============

Best Regards
Your Sincerely
Director Tony Elumelu
U.B.A Bank Representative

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