419 scam: First City Monument Bank Plc <fcmbankplc3@peoplepc.com> UPDATE (FCMB BANK)

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "economic and financial crime commission" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
- "(efcc)" (This name is often mentioned in money recovery scams (re-scam): the real EFCC does not contact victims to offer to get their money back because that is near impossible. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: First City Monument Bank Plc <fcmbankplc3@peoplepc.com>
Reply-To: First City Monument Bank Plc <firstcitymonument_bankplc1@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:52:38 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Subject: UPDATE (FCMB BANK)

Attn: Sir/Madam,

We are instructed by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to pay a compensation payment to some listed fraud victims and we have contacted you previously in regards to this new development, but we did not receive any response from you.
Please whatever you are doing, we urge you to kindly do it very fast so that we can start processing your compensation payment through ATM card immediately because the Federal Ministry of Finance and the EFCC has given us Final order to return any fund that was unclaimed by the beneficiary back to CBN Federation account.

We advise you to kindly reconfirm to us your full name, Occupation, address and your phone number so that we can start processing your payment immediately.

it's very important

Yours truly,
Steve James

First City Monument Bank Nigeria
(FCMB)

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