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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: "Kung Frank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <kungfrank@qq.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:48:06 +0530
Subject: HELLO ..

UNITED NATIONAL BANK (UNB)!
Transfer Officer: Kung Frank
 
PIN: ACC021/UNB7895/2014
REF NO: UNB/4542/ENG/UK/01892015
WE WILL LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT YOUR MONEY $1,400,000.00, IS STILL PENDING IN OUR BANK, PLEASE CONFIRM WITH US URGENTLY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO PROCESS THE TRANSFER THROUGH BANK TRANSFER.
 
We have evaluated the transfer of your money and we have been authorized to remit One Million Four Hundred Thousand US Dollars $1,400,000.00 to you. We sent you a message last week concerning the transfer of your money to your bank account. We will like to make you understand that the requirement that is needed from you is to facilitate the transfer to your account because we have been authorized to by the UNITED NATIONS (UN), INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS (IMF) AND THE WORLD BANKS to open account with your name in our bank and we will transfer money from the United Nations treasury Account and deposit One Million Four Hundred Thousand US Dollars $1,400,000.00 into the account that will be open in our bank. 
After the account is activated, we shall send you your account cheque book, Your ATM Card and your online pin code for you to access your account to make transfer to your other account. Be inform that with this modern method, transfer is very fast and reliable because we are the bank the do carry out the most fast means of receiving funds in the global sector.
 
PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR REGISTERATION:
Full Name:
ADDRESS:
Mobile No:
We United National Bank are the bank that is been call upon during any urgent needs of funds and we can transfer money to you and you will receive the money in your account thesame day of transfer. Kindly reply back to us with your details to let us know if you are interested to allocate the money to you as the beneficiary
 
Yours Faithfully
Transfer Officer: Kung Frank
 
 
 
 
 
 

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