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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: "(RBC) Royal Bank Of Canada." <mailmailorgorg66@yahoo.es>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:19:44 -1000
Subject: WIRE TRANSFER

(RBC) Royal Bank Of Canada.
1122 International Blvd.
Burlington,Ontario L7L 6Z8

Dear Beneficiary,

The Board of Trustees and Management of (RBC) Royal Bank Of
Canada wish to officially inform you today that your
outstanding payment which was deposited with our bank here
in Canada to your name many days ago has been legally
approved and Authorized by the European Union committee on
Foreign Payment Resolution, following with the payment
release letter we received from the Canadian Finance
Ministry and Canadian Ambassador to U.S, for onward
transfer, therefore, an instruction to credit your fund have
been given to this Bank by the (FRB) Federal Reserve Bank Of
Scotland for immediate release of your fund to your bank
account.

Meanwhile, be informed that your fund transfer notification
letter has been forwarded to the Central Bank Of Canadian
and to the General Director Of (I.M.F) International
Monitoring Fund Office in America for final approval, and
this is because to transfer such huge amount of money we
really have to notify every offices that is concern in any
International fund transfer that is moving out of Canada
just to avoid any problem when making the payment to your
bank account, but we have successfully gotten some of the
fund release approval documents from the legal department
regarding this transaction.

Note that the (RBC) Royal Bank Of Canada Established in
Ontario as of 1782 by Charles III, today the bank is a
member of the Canadian System of Central Banks.It is also
the national supervisor of all the banking system around
Canada, and as such any transaction made out of this bank
must go successfully into the beneficiary's bank account
without any hitch, and be informed that every documentations
required in your fund transfer must be fully secured and
send to you as soon as possible for proof and file keeping
before we can proceed.

However, we the Royal Bank Of Canada hereby advise you to
quickly reconfirm your full banking information to this bank
once again to enable us cross check it with the one they
submitted to us before we can proceed with the claim process
of your fund, and this is to avoid any mistake or wrongful
transaction, and we will not be responsible for any lost of
fund, so as a result of this we now advise you to kindly get
back to us with your Residential Home Address and your
complete Banking details as to enable the management of this
bank facilitate the smooth release of your fund to your
account.


Upon the confirmation of your full details as instructed we
will send to our Bank Attorney to proceed with securing of
the necessary legal documents in your name with immediate
effect, and note that we have some of the approval documents
to your name already and we shall also send them to you as
soon as we hear from you for proof.

We awaiting your immediate response with your information to
enable this bank proceeds with the transfer of your approved
fund and serve you better as we were directed by the
Canadian Government.


Thank you for choosing Royal Bank Of Canada.

Signed,

Yours Faithfully,

Rev. Jim C. David,
The Managing Director
(RBC) Royal Bank Of Canada.

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