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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <smith_patricia@yahoo.cn>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:29:59 +0200
Subject: RE: REMITTANCE OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS





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Attention: Email Bearer,
 
 
RE: REMITTANCE OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS
 
 
After an extensive close door meeting between the board of directors of World Bank/IMF and the Federal Reserve System on your outstanding oversees payment, it was resolved and agreed upon, that Barr. (Mrs.) Patricia Smith is to be your representative and will work extensively to ensure that your outstanding funds will be paid to you without any hitch and delay through the World Bank and IMF insurance body. The total sum of $750,000.00; Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars has been endorsed and approved for payment to you.
 
To safe-guard our beneficiaries from further extortion of unnecessary payments, we advice that you establish contacts with the attorney, a human rights lawyer who will render free legal services to all listed. In other words, she requires no consultation, legal or service fee to ensure that you are on the right track to receive your funds without being misled. She is very much conversant with the delivery/banking law and will guide you through.
 
As soon as you establish contacts with her, she will guide you on how the endorsed paying bank will set up a non-residential account in your name where you can personally access and effect online in-house transfer of funds to any bank of your choice or from which the paying bank can issue an ATM Card with which you can withdraw your funds gradually from any ATM Centre.
 
NOTE: The only fee you will be paying is $300 which is the fee required to secure the Non-Residential Clearance Permit and Approval from the Ministry of Finance to enable Barr. (Mrs.) Patricia Smith operates as your representative and which will be presented by the Lawyer to the Bank for the setting up of your Non-residential Account.
 
You can email our attorney with the below details:
 
Name: Barr. (Mrs.) Patricia Smith.
Email: smith.patricia@yahoo.cn
 
 
Remember to reconfirm the following details of yours to the Barrister so as to enable her verify your details and prepare your file;
 
 
Full Names:
Address:
Sex:
Age:
Occupation:
Country:
Private Cell Phone No:
Home Cell No:
A Scan Copy of your Identification card.
 
For your information, the reason given by World Bank/IMF for your Fund Transfer to be channeled through the endorsed paying bank and monitored by Federal Reserve, United States is to avoid the bureaucratic bottlenecks, stifling and erratic extortion usually associated with Commercial Banks inter Bank transfer, however your co-operation with the endorsed paying bank as you will be directed by the attorney is paramount to having this funds remittance and transfer completed within the stipulated time frame of 3-5 working days.
 
Note: Your funds transfer will be monitored through any of the listed Federal Reserve Districts: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, KansasCity, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, San Francisco, St. Louis as will be decided by the board.
 
Please do keep the attorney updated in the course of your communication with the endorsed paying bank; she will take up any legal issues if you are being requested of unnecessary charges.
 
Regards,
 
Thomas M. Hoenig.
For: Federal Reserve Audit Unit
 
IMPORTANT:
 
This electronic mail message and any attachments contain information intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is proprietary, privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any viewing, copying, disclosure or distribution of this information may be subject to legal restriction or sanction. Please notify the sender, by electronic mail or telephone, of any unintended recipients and delete the original message without making any copies. This message and any attachments are not intended to be tax advice, however, if this message or any attachments contain advice with respect to an Unclaimed Payment matter subject to the approval and/or remittance, such advice is intended or written to be used for the purpose of avoiding
any penalties or losses that may be imposed under the International law.




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