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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: Claimdept@finances.worldbank.org
Reply-To: ubsuk16@56788.com
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:45:53 -0700
Subject: REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 020/2014 (USD$1.5 MILLION ) FOR 3RD QUARTER PAYMENT OF
THE YEAR 2014

(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: 020/2014 (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 3RD Quarter payment of the year for poverty alleviation programmes and World Bank 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 ATM CARD 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 of the Federal Reserve Bank of AmericaTreasury committee members of The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC,by this 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: ubsuk45@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....................................
SEX......................................................
NATIONALITY.........................................
OCCUPATION..........................................
MOBILE TELEPHONE.................................
EMAIL ADDRESS......................................
PIN CODE NO.........................................
SCAN COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY...................

Send a copy of your response to;

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: ubsuk45@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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