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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: "Mr. JOHN RUSHER" <info@cibc.org>
Reply-To: johnrusher1@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 09:27:59 -0700
Subject: YOUR FUND IS READY

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to officially informed you that the two people you sent to our Bank {CIBC} to stand on your behalf in receiving your approved inheritance/contract fund has arrived successfully but we want to be sure if they were really your representatives, that is why we (CIBC FIRST CARIBBEAN BANK, CAYMAN ISLAND) contacted you first due to an instruction has been given by the Debt Reconciliation Committee of United Nation that all funds owed to respective beneficiaries has to be paid before the budget office compiles the budget for the year 2023 of CAYMAN ISLAND.
Below here are the account details they (your Representatives) submitted to us for the transferring of your total sum of {$25.5M DOLLARS} with accrued interest inclusive, also we were informed that this account was given to them by you, so you are advise to contact us immediately with the confirmation of this subject matter to enable us commence with your transfer.

BANK NAME: WELLS FARGO BANK.
ADDRESS: 1063 11TH ST REEDLEY CA 93654
ACCOUNT NO: # 3292957895
ROUTING NO: # 121042882.
BENEFICIARY NAME: JAMES WILSON.

Please confirm to us if the above information is correct/true and was endorsed by you just to enable us commence on the transferring of the said funds. It is imperative to let you know that the approval payment instruction has been given by the United Nation after their meeting with CIBC Management, so we need your urgent response to enable us to meet up with the mandate given to us by the United Nation.
We also need your full details in order to backup your transfer payment in the following order.

FULL NAME
ADDRESS:
ZIP CODE
COUNTRY:
AGE/SEX:
OCCUPATION:
PHONE NUMBER:
A VALID IDENTITY CARD:

with this arrangements, you will be officially protected and there will be no more records of your funds to your governments, you will only make transfers from your offshore account once you need money to settle matters like payments of your mortgage, payments of your cash loan, children school fees, official business payments and lots of others payments from your side, this is all supported with the official bank to bank transfer system.
Here is all the Benefits:
Transparency - Best Services
Personalised account manager
24/7 Internet banking and payments
Send -/receive funds by international wire
IBAN and SWIFT -/BIC payments
NO personal visit to Cayman Islands required
Multicurrency account management
Approval guaranteed!
Finally, if we do not hear from you after five (5 days) working banking days from this notification, CIBC management will not be held liable for any negative outcome or protest in any law court as to our inability to transfer the said fund to the intended recipient. We shall also honor legal pivots from your representatives and affect the transfer if we do not get any written matter from you in contrast to this notification within the same period.

Yours in service,
Thanks
Yours Faithfully
Mr. JOHN RUSHER

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