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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <infoworld.bank@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:42:24 -0400
Subject: PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS.....

The World Bank
HeadQuarters: 1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Email: infoworld.bank@worldbank.org
Email: infoworld.bank@yahoo.com
http://www.worldbank.org/
 
Our Ref: WB/IDS-RTF/11
You’re Ref: NWB-WBG/DRC-2011
 
                                 World Bank Department of Debt Reconciliation and Payment.
Attnetion: Dear Accredited Beneficiary,
This communication serves to bring to your kindest knowledge on the unilateral resolution with the World Bank Department for Debt Reconciliation and payment and National Westminster Bank Plc(NatWest Bank), London-United Kingdom. The resolution was basically on the issue of transfer supporting approval; that has been delaying initiating prompt transfer of your Inheritance Funds with the National Westminster Bank Plc as the nominated accredited paying bank by the World Bank here in Washington DC.
After several debate, a resolution was finally reached and the paying bank being National Westminster Bank Plc(London-UK) have considered it paramount that your funds will be released with all banking mechanism being applied to work out all bank charges associated with releasing your funds to you. As a result of this resolution, We have accorded all professional instruction to the National Westminster Bank Plc(NatWest Bank) to work out all necessary modality to deduct bank charges that associates with the transfer; including Cost of Transfer(COT) and other banking operational service Charges. so the only Statutory Obligation you ought to expend in the course of releasing your funds with the bank is re-validating your funds Ownership Certificate that will prompt Ministry of Justice to notarize the payment as instituted in Article 2© of foreign payment and related allied matters ACT-2002. Therefore, haven stated above, you will provide the Federal Ministry of Justice; the s! tatutory sum of $450.00(Fo! ur Hun
Similarly, I’m by this back ground, informing you that you have been allocated with the sum of Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars($USD 10.5M) only and the sum have been approved by the Federal Ministry of Finance, which have been appropriated to be release by the National Westminster Bank Plc(NatWest Bank) as the nominated BANK. So kindly, write to Office of the General Manager, with details of your local bank coordinate,  your Complete Names and residential Address, Cell Phone Number, Occupation and Office Address respectively via the email of the General Manager (Foreign Operation) as given below:
Contact Person: Mr. William Brown
Tel: +44 702 402 8453
Tel/Fax: +44 703 181 3812
Bank E-mail: natwestb_uk@yahoo.co.uk  AND  Email: natwestb_uk@natwest.com
 
Kindly ensure that you bring to the knowledge of this Department any further demand to expend money other than as earlier directed because the bank has been properly directed to employ all banking mechanism deducting whatever that might prompt you to expend further other than as earlier directed above. In addition, the bank has already set up an online account in your name as the information just reaching my office today, that your online account with the bank has been credited with the sum approved.
 
The bank will provide you with the vital informations to access the account and report back to this office prior initiating a wire transfer to your local bank account. More importantly, be advised to desist from whatever bank in Nigeria that has purportedly claimed to have the mandate to handle your payment.
 
The Management of Central Bank of Nigeria have strongly and re-instated clearly that no bank has been jurisdicted/mandated to contact any inheritance/contractual beneficiary unless otherwise directed, which you are as to follow by us.
 
Yours Faithfully,
Jackson Kantreal
Executive Secretary for:
World Bank Department of Debt Reconciliation Committee.

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