419 scam: WILLAMS PETERS <iyfsxhfv@gmail.com> Your Urgent Attention,

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "activation fee" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- pgaqtsca@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: WILLAMS PETERS <iyfsxhfv@gmail.com>
Reply-To: pgaqtsca@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:51:08 +0000
Subject: Your Urgent Attention,

Attn: Online Beneficiary,

Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we
have in our database before we proceed to set up your Bank of America
Personal Residential Online Account, we want to bring to your notice
the simple procedure to achieve this aim with our bank under my
supervision. First and foremost the origin of funds has previously
advised in my initial email was from the United Nation Organization on
unpaid payments from deposit funds from Africa, Asia and Eastern
Europe. Your name and contact Information was retrieved from the short
listed data on the file of the United Nation Organization.

If you try to recollect, you would remember conducted some businesses
in either of the mentioned three tier regions (Africa, Asia and
Eastern Europe) and the purpose of selection was randomly made by the
United Nation Organization. Our bank stands out from all the presently
distressed banks in United State and Northern America to enable the
payment of your overdue transaction that has been pending for the past
several years released.

I want you to clearly understand that, I am here to serve you
according to the instruction from FBI, Homeland Securities of States
and United Nation Organization in particular, Moreover, I am not here
to play any kind of joke with you. The clearances from Federal Reserve
Bank and US Treasury Department to enable your online Transfer go
smoothly has been issue to our Bank.

Meanwhile, you have to clearly understand that, before we can set up a
new Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account for you here
in our Bank, the activation fee must be paid by you and it will
reflect in our database and your original account which was instructed
from united nation will be activated.

You have to send the sum of $25 usd dollars Google
Play card or steam wallet to activate your Bank of America Personal
Residential Online Account, this payment will be credited to your
online account before we can fully remit The amount value of
US$45,000.000.00 United States Dollars This is why it is important
that we first of all receive the Bank of America Personal Residential
Online Account Activation fee in our bank, which in turn would record
and file the payment of $25 usd dollars Steam Wallet Card and forward the
information to our headquarters here in USA.

Then the funds would be received, in GIFTS registered into the system
and once it is sighted, then an instruction would be issued out to
that effect and the documentation would be formally presented to
Federal Reserve Bank just as described in my most recent
correspondence with you explaining.

Please, if you cannot afford to pay this US$25 Google Play card or
steam wallet donâ€™t reply to my email; we donâ€™t have
time to beg you to set up Bank of America Personal Residential Online
under our supervision. Once your bye the $25 usd dollars iTunes card
and make sure your send the
Copy of the $25 usd dollars iTunes card or Google Play card or steam
wallet here in Our Mail Address (pgaqtsca@gmail.com)
Okay,

Thanks
WILLAMS PETERS

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