419 scam: Bank of Communications Co Ltd <helendamvouneli@gmail.com> Bank of Communications UK.

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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:

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:
- "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: Bank of Communications Co Ltd <helendamvouneli@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bfcomm@live.com
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:19:25 +0100
Subject: Bank of Communications UK.

Bank of Communications Co Ltd

Financial Services London

Address: 4th Floor, 1 Bartholomew Lane,

London EC2N 2AX, U.K.

Good day

We are hereby to inform you we the instruction we received from the World
Bank and IMF to pay $500,000 to you has compensation fee which you have
been trying to receive from Africa and with all your effort there was no
success. All our investigation we discovered that this fund was originated
from Africa Nigeria and you are going to receive this fund in next 2hours.

All you have to do right now is to contact the Honorable Co-coordinating
Minister for the Economy and Hon. Minister of Finance Mrs. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala on the information below.

Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF)

Ahmadu Bello Way, Central Business District

Abuja, Nigeria

Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Co-coordinating Minister for the Economy and Hon. Minister of Finance

Email: fmfpolicy@outlook.com

She will issue you an Immunity transfer tags and that will enable us credit
your account immediately within less than 24hours without anymore
requirement or obligation.

Thanks.

Dongping Yang

Chief Risk Officer

Bank of Communications UK.

Disclaimer

This email is confidential. If you are not the addressee please contact
Bank of Communications London ("BOC") hotline number immediately and
destroy this email without using, sending or storing it. Emails are not
secure and may suffer errors, viruses, delay, interception and amendment.
BOC its holding company and subsidiaries ("BOCGroup") does not accept
liability for damage caused by this email. This email is not an offer,
solicitation, recommendation or agreement of any kind.

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