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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: "WORLD BANK CENTER" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <angelagary@fastwebmail.it>
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 09:02:19 +0100
Subject: WORLD BANK PAYMENT CENTER LONDON

PAYMENT CENTER
Funds Remittance Department
World Bank
British Government
Direct Line:+447924046961
Attn:
After a joint meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the Senate
Committee on Foreign Debts reconciliation and the Presidential Payment and
Implementation Panel on Contract/ inheritance fund under Category, which
was addressed and headed by the government of united kingdom It became
imperative to contact you on the subject matter. This meeting was
initiated as part of the recent image laundering scheme of the federal
government of Nigeria.
During the meeting, so many negative reports were tabled on behalf of our
numerous contractors and foreign personnel’s on how unfairly they have
been treated and extorted by some corrupt government officials who were
vested with the authority to pay them their entitlements. The most
annoying and irritating aspect of it all is that they could not effect
payment to these foreign beneficiaries after subjecting them to so much
stress and trauma. So the WORLD BANK London has being instructed to carry
out the payment to you.
So for you to receive your fund which is worth $17.5M United States
Dollars all you need to do is to choose an option amongst the below
options on how you will prefer to get your funds.
(1)Online Wire Transfer (OWT)
Full Name:
Full Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age:
Country:
Bank Name:
Account Number:
Swift Code:
 
(2) Atm Card
Full Name:
Full Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age:
Country:
 
(3) Certified Bank Draft
Full Name:
Full Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age:
Country:
 
Kindly choose the method you will like to receive your funds with and get
back to me so that we can proceed on this matter  angelagary@fastwebmail.it
PAYMENT CENTER
Funds Remittance Department
World Bank
Telephone number:+447924046961

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