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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. Savior Winna" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <winsavior@blumail.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 01:19:10 -0800
Subject: Are you still alive?

Union Bank Of Nigeria
 
Foreign Operations Director
 
+234 8081820118  PLS CALL ME NOW FOR CONFIRMATION.
 
Dear Beneficiary,
 
This is to remind you that your fund has been approved for payment. We are contacting you to re-confirm your account coordinates, so that we will NOT make wrong transfer of your fund and we would not be held liable due to wrong disbursement of your fund. However we received an email from one Mr.Muhammad Othman: 50,Jalan Seraya 1/4 Presint Serai Eka Matahari 71950 Labu Seremban N.Sembilan,Malaysia, who told us that he is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident four months back,the sudden change of account details is suspecious.
 
HE has also submitted his account information to our accounts/audit department for transfer of the fund  to him as your inheritor of the fund stated herein.
 
We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in our Bank records before we can make the transfer into his account and for us to conclude confirmation if you are dead or still alive. Please, should this notification from has been in the contrary,you should urgently reply confirmating to my office that you are still alive,As soon as we confirm from you we shall forward to you the payment information stated below:This account information below was presented to us by Mr.Muhammad Othman where he would want the fund of USD$4,500,000.00 to be transferred into:
 
CIMB Bank Berhad
 
Bangunan UMNO Jalan Besar 73000 Tampin,
 
Negeri Sembilan,Malaysia
 
Account no : 05060001046208
 
Swift Code : CIMBMYKL
 
Let us know as soon as possible if you are the one that gave authorization to this effect and the order to transfer your fund into the said account.However, you should urgently re-confirm your full receiving bank details if on the contrary,we are Looking forward to hearing from you. EMAIL(winsavior@blumail.org)
 
Thanks,
 
Yours Faithfully
 
Mr. Savior Winna

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