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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: "Engr: Glover Smith" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <gloversmith@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:31:16 -0500
Subject: Pending Funds test

Attention:

We are sorry for the delay in crediting your bank account, we found out an error somewhere which we thought was from you and we found out that you are innocent in the case.

Now we have proceeded to credit your bank account within the next 48hours of our banking time. And we want you to be patient and believe this is going to be a hitch-free one.

This time we promise to serve you well and stand on our word as this will be a legitimatized transaction held between you and FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK, NEW YORK.

In the light above please be advised not to disclose any of your pin and transaction number to anyone for maximum security reasons.

All you have to do now is to pay the fixed sum of USD$200.00 being fee for administrative and final processing of your funds transfer which will be paid through WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER in the name of our Protocol Officer in our Funds Unit liaison office in Indonesia

All other Formality has been put in place and we await your urgent response and action to the above directive, so please ensure to Follow the instructions and act accordingly to enable us credit your designated bank account immediately.

Please kindly get back to us so we can give you direction on how to pay the required fee for your administrative and final processing of your held funds in FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK,NEW YORK.

Thanks for your co-operation and understanding

Your's truly...

Engr: Glover Smith
+62-82110-418147
email.-gloversmith@yahoo.cn
P.S :NoT WHEN CALLING THE OFFICE NUMBER ASK FOR EXTENTION 6 TRANSFER UNIT

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