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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 Stella dike <terry_hedges@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: stelladike31@ymail.com
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:33:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Your Payment of $3.5 million is approval.



YOUR PAYMENT FUND
ZENITH BANK NIGERIA PLC
Address: NO 6 AHMADU WAY GARIKI ABUJA CORPORATE HQ
Ref: Payment of $3.5 million approval.

Please Attention to this Notification.

We received instruction few days from our correspondence bank to transfer
the sum of $3.5 million into your account which we are on the process to
open an online banking account on your name and forward to you the account
information so that you can transfer your fund into your regular account
in your country by your self, to avoid any problem.

But we are surprise this morning when we are about to open your online
banking account and received another email from Ms Diane L. Mcallister
whom claim to be your representative and forward to us the following
account information for us to transfer the fund into her account.

The account which she forward to us as follow.

Bank of America
St. Petersburg, Florida , USA
Diane L. Mcallister
Account# 003767127294
Routing # 063100277
65 Jabotinsky St#2
Ramat Gan, ISRAEL 54224

Please, Do reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if this lady is from you
and has your authority to receive your fund .If this lady is not your
representative, You are requested to fill and send this information for
verification purpose, so that your fund value of $3.5million united state
dollars will be paid to you through online banking method.

1. YOUR FULL NAME..........................
2. YOUR TELEPHONE......
3. FAX...........................

4. AGE...........
5. SEX........................... .........
6. YOUR OCCUPATION.................... ............
7. YOUR ADDRESS....................... .

HOWEVER, WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENT DETAILS TO THE SAID
MS.Diane L. Mcallister, IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN
WORKING DAYS FROM TODAY, WE WILL PROCESS AND RELEASE THE FUND INTO Ms
Diane L. Mcallister ACCOUNT.

NOTED:THAT DUE TO THIS REASON THE BANK HAS PUT YOUR ACCOUNT ON (PND)CODE
FOR SECURITY PURPOSE,SO EVEN IF YOU CAN DO ANY TRANSACTION NOW,YOU MUST
ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT WITH US,WITH THE TOTAL SUM OF $92 AND YOUR VAT OF
$20 TOTAL FEE SHOULD BE ($112)ONLY WE ARE SORRY FOR WHAT THIS MIGHT CAUSED
YOU BUT IT WAS DID FOR SECURITY PURPOSE.

Confirm your receipt of this mail without delay...
NOTED:GET BACK TO US VIA THIS EMAIL FOR SECURITY
PURPOSE(stelladike31@ymail.com)

Mrs Stella dike
(Foreign Remittance operation Director ZENITH BANK PLC

 

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