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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: "MRS STACY JAMES" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsstacymariacenterworldbank@accountant.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:08:27 +0530
Subject: Re: URGENT GOOD NEWS ABOUT YOUR UNPAID FUND

Attn: Beneficiary ;


We the public information center of World Bank Auditors have gotten serious report regarding your outstanding payment which is still pending base on the international communities inability to fulfill their full job obligation in regards to the international requirement in the past, base on their failure to deliver your payments to you because of their Unprofessionalism, we the public information center World Bank have decided to use our professional understanding with the International communities over your payment. After our full studied of your payment file which we finally understand that the officers who is claiming to have being helping you from : West Africa Nigerian, Benin, south Africa, Senegal Ghana and London including the federal reserve officers, they are all corrupt, they have taken full advantage of you by asking you for so many payments because they don't understand how to handle this situation for you. which is fully unprofessional and because of Un profession
alism they cannot achieve this go

We public information center World Bank is now responsible to make sure we pay this money to you within the duration of 104 hours from the first day you response to this important message and development, i want you to understand that all the officers you have being dealing with all this time have fail to help you complete this transaction because they cannot handle your matter the way we handle it because we are the only people in-charge of this matter now and you must not disclose this golden opportunity to anyone whom you have being dealing with in the past and you must seize any further communication

with them or any arrangement made by those parties because we are fully in-charge of this payment to you and we have 104 hours to achieve this goal with many methods of payments as follows:

Mode of Payment

1. Via Our Online Banking Service which we will allow you to sit in your house with your computer to access your account balance Online and also allow
you to make withdrawals from your account with World Bank which we are going to open for you free of charge-your opening balance will be part payment of your fund which will be ( $25,000,000.00 )

2. We can also open up our New Payment technology for you which is called (TELEPHONE BANKING SERVICE) this telephone banking service can only be handle
over the telephone which will allow you to make withdrawals from your account and view your balance and even transfer money from your Account with World
Bank which we are going to open for you and then transfer to your local account of your residence.

3. We can as well make wire transfer upon your request from your account with World Bank, to your local account Upon your Request because we are going to
maintain the user-age of that account for you as your offshore account which will be available for you 24 hours service without income tax.
The Choice is now yours to make, we are now waiting for your Urgent response so that we can commerce action without any-further delay.

Lets us know the payment mode you prefer among this three payment status.

Sincerely

Public information center World Bank
Mrs. Stacy James
Director General, Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank
CHAIRPERSON
WORLD BANK

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