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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: Draft <oinfo00003@yahoo.pt>
Reply-To: Draft <advocatephilipmoore@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:32:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary REF: Payment Notification valid USD$4M.


 WORLD BANK
Level 16, China World Tower 2,
China World Trade Center
No.1, Jian Guo Men Wai Avenue
Beijing 100004, P R China
E-MAIL: contactwbchina@asia.com
EMAIL: advocatephilipmoore@yahoo.com

Our Ref: WB/BC/CHI87/16/2014
DATE" 21TH JAN 2015

Attention: Beneficiary REF: Payment Notification Payment By
International Certified Bank Draft valid USD$4M part payment

Sir/madam

This is to bring to your kind notice that we have made several attempt to contact you , over 15 email message was sent to you in different occasion since this year but till today we have not received any responses from you and we have made another attempt by sending a letter correspondent through china post still no response We are surprise and wonder why you have not responded to us even just to acknowledge our mail or inform us that you received our letter through post office but we have decided to contact you through this means again which we believes that our communication must get to your destination we have to carry out this excises base on the instruction and directives /mandate given to us by UNITED NATIONS and IMF and
WORLD BANK this pact was signed early 2013

It is imperative to note that a lot of investigation and enquiries was made before initiating this contact with you, we have deliberated over your case and the board have study your file and confirm your fund as legal and legitimate therefore we are presenting to you this letter of your fund payment which is specially prepared by world bank through our paying desk here in china and London office as eligible beneficiary of this quoted fund

Note, upon the receipt of this letter, you are directed to establish a contact with us on the listed emails address respectively this will enable us send you a bank transfer by MT103 which the copy will tendered to your bank for confirmation and clearance of your fund Yours faithfully,

...........………..............
MR HONG ZHANG (FROM HONG KONG) REPRESENTATIVE
Foreign Remittance Director
World Bank Beijing, China

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