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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: "Citi Bank Uganda" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <citibankugand313@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:39:11 +0330
Subject: FROM CITI BANK UGANDA YOUR PAYMENT

Atten: Beneficary
 
From the records of outstanding contractoredue for payment with the Federal Government of Uganda, Your name/company was discovered as nest of th list of the outstanding contractors who have not received their due payment.
 
I wish to informed you that your payment is being processes and will be released to you from our bank Citi Bank of Uganda as soon as you respond to this latter. Also note that from my records in my file your outstanding contract payment is US$65.7 Million Dollars(Sixty Five Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
 
Please Re-confirm to meif this is inline with what you have in your record and also re-conirm to me the followings for record verificationand proper documentation to avoid future embarassment
 
 
1 Your Full Name -----------------------
2, Phone Fax and Mobile #--------------------
3. Company name ,possition and address--------------------
4. Profession ,age and marital status------------------
5. Copy of Int. Passport---------------------------------
6. Your Bank Account Information--------------------------------
 
Please your urgent confirmation is highly needed now before your fund will be released to another person. Get back to me immediatly via my alterntive email address.  citibankugand313@gmail.com
 
Yours Faithfully.
Mr. Kabiri Charles Mukhwana
Citi Bank Uganda
 
 

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