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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: "Dr.John Betes" <kiddingjoe@gmail.com>
Reply-To: official04444@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:09:40 -0600
Subject: WITH REGARDS TO YOUR OUTSTANDING PAYMENT.

WITH REGARDS TO YOUR OUTSTANDING PAYMENT.

This is with regards to your outstanding payment, I am Dr.John Betes, the
director of international Transfer and Investigation, the Wachovia Bank
USA and,the board of directors,has
directed me to contact you without any further delays in regards to your
long awaited payment which has been under attack for some time now, I am
sure you will be very confused at this point but we are doing all within
our power to ensure that your amount is not released to the wrong person.

we have approved all outstanding debts owned to Foreign beneficiaries by
the British government in this last quarter of this Fiscal year of
2014.This decision was taken based on the abnormalities and inability of the
release of your long awaited fund by our BANKS into
your bank account ,whereby it was discovered that some Directors of the
bank were diverting foreign beneficiaries payment to another account of
their choice overseas. In view of this, during our investigation I found
out that an account was submitted to divert your fund to a Germany
account. Below is the account submitted and I want you to confirm if you
are aware of the new development because we are about effecting payment to
the account stated below today.

Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA
Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK
A/C No.: 367840545
Code: 50050201

Finally, be informed that a payment instruction has been issued and
Forwarded to the Treasury Department of the Wachovia Bank USA In favor of
you and your company for immediate release of your fund to the account
above without any further prejudice. But there is no way we can approve
the fund to the above account without you confirming if you have changed
your account for your fund to be transfer to the Beneficiary: CERSTIN
WENGER SHENOUDA BANK ACCOUNT IN GERMANY.

Contact me immediately for further clarification to know if you have
Giving instruction to transfer your fund to the above account today. On
behalf Of the entire management of the (RBS), we are congratulating you in
advance and if you fail to contact this office on or before 24hrs from now
then we will make wire of the funds to the German account.

Thanks for your co-operation.
Waiting for your urgent response
below is the information we need to reconfirm your transfer

(1). Your Full Name...............
(2). RESIDENCE ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND
COUNTRY..............
(3). PERSONAL CELL PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE PHONE...............
(4). Your Age...................
(5). Sex...................
(6). Occupation...................
(7). A SCAN COPY OF YOUR ID CARD..............

Yours faithfully
Dr.John Betes

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