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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: "STANDARD BANK PLC LONDON UK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.dougband91@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:40:24 -0000
Subject: ***** NOTIFICATION OF YOUR FUND APPROVAL WITH STANDARD BANK PLC UK *****

Standard Bank Plc
Address: 20 Gresham Street London
EC2V 7JE England
United-Kingdom
Fax: +44(0)843-265-7777



Dear. Sir/Madam,

This is to bring to your notice that we received an instructed letter from the British Finance Monitoring Unit London UK in Conjunction with the C.I.A and US Home-Land Security to credit your account with the valued payment of $10.5M(Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with your fund approval code (X147/NYF468/ NY2012FT)

NB: Be inform that this transaction can be done either Bank to Bank Wire Transfer method or Via Online-Banking.

To enable us proceed for this transaction, you are to get back to us with the information as listed below;

Full Legal Name:
Your Full Residential Address:
Telephone No:
Mobile No:
Copy of your international Passport or drivers license:

Yours in Service,
Mr. Doug Band
Standard Bank Plc London UK.
( mr.dougband62@yahoo.com)

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