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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: "Head Office: U. B. A. House" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <georgepaul@gogo.mn>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 03:35:47 +0300
Subject: Your Immediate response will be appreciated

United Bank For Africa (UBA) Plc.
Head Office: U. B. A. House,
57, Marina,
P. O. Box 2406,Lagos

Attention: Sir/Madam,

RE: TRANSFER OF $4,550.000.00 REMITTANCE

We pray this mail finds you in good state of mind as regards to your health. We await your response on the above subject to enable us effect the remittance/transfer of your long outstanding payment of $4,550.000.00 (Four Million Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars).

Sequel, Mrs. Mistura Mohammed came to my office with a letter claiming to be your representative and relation informing us that you are ill and as such have been unable to send us an email or call our office. Her information is as detailed below:

NAME: Mrs. Mistura Mohammed
BANK NAME: NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT (NBE)
BRANCH: SOUK ELGOMLA BRANCH
ADDRESS: SOUK EL GOMLA , EL OBOUR CITY. CAIRO, EGYPT.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 64 366 9211
SWIFT CODE: NBEGEGCX136

Kindly reconfirm to us as a matter of urgency if Mrs. Mistura Mohammed was sent by you as a pre-requisite by the Central Bank so that the Federal Government will not be held responsible for paying into the wrong account name. In the affirmative you are requested to report to this office for verification
and reference purpose(s) We have two options of payment

**A. ATM MASTER CARD
**B. BANK TO BANK TRANSFER (Wire Transfer).

You have to inform this office on your desire option of payment.

For reference purpose, you are advice to complete provide the information below.

(1) YOUR FULL NAME:
(2) ADDRESS :
(3) TELEPHONE NUMBER:
(4) MODE OF PAYMENT:

Your immediate response will be appreciated and will help us expedite this transaction. If we do not hear from you in 2 (two) working days, we shall assume you sent and her effect the transaction.

We await your swift response.

Yours faithfully,

For: United Bank for Africa Plc.
Mr. George Paul
Team Lead, International Remittance Dept.

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