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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: "MR BRIAN" <bankofmaerica297@gmail.com>
Reply-To: bankofmaerica298@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:22:02 -0500
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION




BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
England Street Ashland, Virginia 23005 USA
Telephone No.: 19718329177

Attention,Certified Beneficially


This is to inform you that we have been instructed by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) to carry out the transfer of your funds valued
US$10,500, 000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) which was On-Hold in our Bank, to any Bank Account of your choice
upon your response to this email.

This notice was given to this office after the FBI gave us a notification
of how you were ripped off in the past by some impostors who used the good
name and office of the FBI to take advantage of you.

We do wish to notify you that the issue has been taken care off and this
Bank have been authorized to transfer your funds into your private
account.

However, in order to confirm if your the true beneficiary which we were
assigned to pay, you are required to fill correctly the below details and
send it back to us via email for further verification purpose before final
transfer will be made to you as instructed.

THE REQUIRED DETAILS ARE:-

Name:
Address:
Occupation:
Tel:
Email:

As soon as the above details are received by this Bank, we will proceed
immediately to release your funds to your Bank Account without any further
delay.

Finally, you are advised to get back to us via this email address;
(bankofmaerica298@gmail.com) for our perusal.

Looking forward to hearing from you to enable us serve you better.

Yours truly,

Mr. Brian Moynihan
Chief Executive Officer
Bank of America


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