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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: United Bank for Africa <unitedbankforafrica023@gmail.com>
Reply-To: uba.bank.bf@financier.com
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:50:56 +1300
Subject: Dear beneficiary:


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Dear beneficiary:

Sir/Madam,

Compliment of the day; this is to inform you that the IMF/World Bank
auditors has approved a compensation payment to compensate some of their
lucky winners for their annual year winning award and, Your E-mail ID ( )
is among the listed to be compensated by World Bank/IMF each valued at US$2
Million as your email address is among the selected emails randomly as
their lucky winner.

Note, we have received from the custody of (IMF and World Bank) the
necessary documents backing and proving you as the beneficiary of the $2
Million Us Dollars that we are about to release to you as award winning
payment.

You are instructed to fill our payment application form as outlined below
correctly to avoid any error in releasing your payment and bear in mind
that we will commence your payment as soon as we receive the information
from you.

Reconfirm the following information for security reason.

1.) Full name:
2.) Age:
3.) Sex:
4.) Address:
5.) Zip/postal code:
6.) State/province:
7.) Country:
8.) Residential Country:
9.) Phone/s:
10.) Occupation/position:
11.) A copy of your international passport, driver’s license or identity
card..

Yours faithfully,
Roger Yameogo
Remittance Manager
United Bank for Africa (U.B.A)
Tel: +226 56-08-59-88
Email: ubaburkinafaso@financier.com
DISCLAIMER: This email and any attachments are confidential and are
intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee tell the
sender immediately and destroy it. Do not open, read, copy, disclose, use
or store it in any way, or permit others to do so. Emails are not secure
and may suffer errors, viruses, delay, interception, and amendment.
Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information
herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent
Responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is
Prohibited.
© United Bank for Africa (U.B.A) 2022 Disclaimer.

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