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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: "World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer(CFO)" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ubsuk10@56788.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:13:43 -0500
Subject: REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 020/2013 (USD$1.5 MILLION )

(WORLD BANK) Head Office
The World Bank 1818 H Street,
N.W. Washington, DC 20433 U.S.A.
Debt Release Funds.
Our Ref:-4C9X0UE3X0
Your Ref: 35460021
Call:+1-213-261-5258
E-Mail: worldbnksettlement06@yahoo.com
Websites:https: https://finances.worldbank.org/
                        
       REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 020/2013 (USD$1.5 MILLION ) WORLD BANK COMPENSATION
Dear Beneficiary,
 
Your name & E-mail id appeared in our payment schedule list of beneficiaries that will receive their funds in this 1st quarter payment of the year for poverty alleviation programmes and World Bank Scam Victms compensations.
Your E-mail i.d was mentioned by our security intelligent monitoring database as one of their victims of the operations as was noted down from the Microsoft, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to anyone or who so ever, for any reason what so ever, the secret service is already on trace of the criminals.You will receive your compensations payments either by Cheque to your home address, or Bank direct wire transfer to your destination local account.
 
We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we hear from you. We wish to inform you that the board of trustees and management of WORLD BANK COMPENSATION TEAM has finalized and have being given an Immediate transfer approval order by the United States of America Department of the Treasury committee Board of Governors Federal Reserve Bank of America ,by following means of choice below for your own security reasons.
 
Now your new Payment, World Bank Approval No; WB5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021. Your part payment inheritance fund is One million five hundred thousand United State Dollars ( USD$1.5Million
I hope this is clear. Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk. Respond to this e-mail: ubsuk@56788.com with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released.According to the number of applicants at hand, 78 beneficiaries have been paid, we still have more left to receive theirs.
 
CONTACT WORLD BANK AUTHORIZE PAYING BANK WITH THIS BELOW FORM:
 
FULL  NAME...........................................
DATE OF BIRTH.......................................
POSTAL/ADDRESS....................................
GENDER......................................................
NATIONALITY.........................................
OCCUPATION..........................................
MOBILE TELEPHONE.................................
EMAIL ADDRESS......................................
PIN CODE NO.........................................
SCAN COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY...................
 
Send a copy of your response to UBS,We will prepared an ATM CARD on your name and I will advice you to contact the dispatcher(UBS) to enable them send the ATM CARD to your home, make sure you contact them and get the ATM CARD.
 
Union Bank Of Switzerland(UBS)
Address: 1 Finsbury Avenue, London EC2M 2PB. UBS AG
London Branch,United Kingdom,
Contact Person: Dr.John Oswel
General Manager, Foreign Transfer Unit,
Bank Email ID: ubsuk@56788.com
Bank Phone Numbers:  +44(0)8719745472,+44(0) 8719746681
Bank Fax Numbers: +44(0)8719747122,+44( 0)8719747832
 
Also call us as soon as you send the e-mail to Union Bank Of Switzerland(UBS) to enable us give immediate response to your mail after sending your information's to the Bank:Direct Hot-line: Call: +1-213-261-5258 or email us directly on: worldbnksettlement06@yahoo.com
 
Regards,
 
Mr.Vincenzo La Via
World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer(CFO)
( World Bank) Head Office
The World Bank 1818 H Street,
N.W. Washington, DC 20433 U.S.A.
Tel: +1-213-261-5258
E-Mail:: worldbnksettlement06@yahoo.com
Website: https://finances.worldbank.org

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