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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: "Common Wealth Bank of London, UK" <lars-olof@samplex.se>
Reply-To: <combnknlondon.com@yandex.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:18:40 -0700
Subject: ******YOUR FUND******

Common Wealth Bank of London, UK
Common Wealth Limited
12 Portman Street London ,W1H 6DZ,
United Kingdom
Phone: +447031992596
Email: combnknlondon.com@yandex.com


Dear Esteemed Beneficiary,

We have received instruction from the World Bank to contact you and release your unpaid USD$10.5 Million to you as soon as possible. Meanwhile, we have finalize to release the fund to you immediately. Please kindly contact me on my private email address: ( combnknlondon.com@yandex.com )and me your full name, phone number to enable me call you to inform you how we want to release this USD$10.5 Million to you without any delays.

I am waiting for your reply.

Yours truly,

Mr. Dean Craig
Chief Accounting Officer
Controller of Common Wealth Bank of London.

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