419 scam: South African Reserve Bank <info.sarb@accountant.com> YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

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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:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
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:
- "you are advice to " (this email uses bad English)
- "power of attorney" (with your bank details and a power of attorney form criminals sometimes empty bank accounts)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
Barristers (lawyers) mentioned in 419 scams are always fake.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- info.financiaintecentre@consultant.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: South African Reserve Bank <info.sarb@accountant.com>
Reply-To: info.financiaintecentre@consultant.com
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:36:47 +0000
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

Reserve Bank Building,
370 Church Street, PRETORIA

CLARIFICATION TO THE RESERVE BANK FOR PAYMENT

This is an urgent notification to you. In our office today, Mr. John
T. Kehoe of Cnr. Wimbledon and Skool Street Black heath 8798, CAPE
TOWN filing application contrary to your pending fund to be
transferred into his account. That you have instructed him to transfer
the fund into his account. But we received a confirmation letter from
the Bank of England to transfer your payments which have been on hold in UK.

Mr. John T. Kehoe, visited this Bank Last week with a power of
attorney given in his favor by your good self, granting him the
benefit to process and claims your on pending inheritance fund for
personal reasons. And we did forward those documents to Bank of
England to confirm if Mr. John T. Kehoe is the original beneficiary of
this payment, Mr. John T. Kehoe, he further stated that your online
account should be terminated while the fund should be wired to his
Account in United State.

Bank account with Bank of America,
Account Number # 12908576457
Routing Number# 121000358.

Our office have ask Mr. John T. Kehoe to return back to the Bank
within 48hours to enable us have a personal confirmation from you
being hitherto the beneficiary this fund. And this fund has been
pending since the Bank of England sent us an Authority letter to
transfer the fund into your account, and we have sent several
notifications to you regards to this payment. We are sorry to have
delayed your instruction in giving out this fund to Mr. John T. Kehoe.
Please if you have not instructed Mr. John T. Kehoe for the claim of
this fund, you are advice to urgently contact Mr. Francois E. Groepe
on his email address info.financiaintecentre@consultant.com for the
confirmation and release of this payment into your account.

Your confirmation to the above will be appreciated. We look forward to
hear from you soon.

Yours Faithfully
Ms G Marcus

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