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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: "World Bank Debt Management" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <worldbankdiplomat@she.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:29:30 +0530
Subject: Your US$7,300,000.00 Million Contract Payment Informations.

Dear Sir/Madam.

This is for your US$7.3million Contract Payment., OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028-2015-world-bank.

We have been authorized by the United Nation personal debt managements, IMF Debt Reconciliation Unit and the World Bank in which to investigates the unnecessary delay on your old contract payment which has been overdue, During the course of our investigation, we discovered some secret which affected your fund payment, unauthorized and fraud claims from unknown individual, also which put unnecessarily delayed or denies for you not to receive your old and unpaid contract payment and this happened to be by some corrupted Bank management officials in conjunction with some Government officials in Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) in which there are trying to divert your contract payment funds into their private bank accounts.

However, our reason for contacting you on this day is to inform you that an ATM Debit Card/MasterCard Approved and was credited in the amount of US$7,300,000.00 million has been issued on your favor, to make it easy for you to receive your contract payment anywhere in the world and thereof the new issued ATM card will be dispatched includes the approval documents which shows all the released information of your old contract payment, and it will be mail through one of the secured Courier Service by United Bank of Africa (UBA) in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.

Once you received it, you can withdraw your full contract fund with the ATM Debit Card/MasterCard in any ATM locations which MasterCard can be accepted worldwide therefore, you have been advised to contact the United Bank of Africa (UBA) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) which is the only appointed and authorized bank to be handling your contract payment, please try and contact them at the information provided below.

To enable them to re-schedule for the delivery of your Approved sum of US$7,300,000.00 million ATM Debit Card/MasterCard to your home address, and the parcel tracking number will be given to you, please ensure to keep the parcel Tracking Number that will be given to you once the package has been placed on transit via Courier service to avoid any further obstruction or loss.

For Further notice, when you contacted the authorized bank ,you will be only ask to pay for postage fees which depends on the country of delivery, but if you Fail to contact the information below or If we do not hear from you or you refused to make payment for the parcel shipping and handling fees from now to 30th January 2015, the delivery for your ATM Debit Card will be put on hold till further clarifications, please for you to avoids any inconvenience or unauthorized claim from unknown individual again, please call or email the person in charge today.

Contact Name: Franklin Erebor
Job Position: MANAGING DIRECTOR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER at United Bank of Africa (UBA)
Email: ubaivorycoast@yahoo.fr
Direct Telephone line: +225 75 11 85 01
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/franklin-erebor/58/622/600

As soon as you establish contact with bank, please make sure that you provide your valid information, current address and also phone number as listed below to enable them to send the ATM Debit Card to your home address successfully.

FULL NAME:
FULL HOME ADDRESS:
CITY:
COUNTRY:
DATE OF BIRTH:
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP:
PHONE NUMBER:

Have a nice day.

Sincerely yours,

Carlos A. Primo Braga
Director, Economic Policy and Debt Managements,
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433 United States.
+1(678) 561-6624
+1(801) 871-5842

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