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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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Bank_E-mail_=A9=22?= <infomail@banklink.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: zenithbankngplccentral@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 23:21:58 +0200
Subject: RE;08/06/2015




ZENITH BANK LIMITED
OUR REF: ZENITH BANK LIMITED/435/X0/027

RE: PAYMENT ON ACCRUED INTEREST OF US$1.5M

I am Mrs. Ruth Owusu, Head of Swift Transfer Unit of zenith bank
Limited Sometime ago, in our bank your payment was brought to our bank
from Apex Bank, and after some period, this money was taken back to the
Government treasury. For the period of time this money was in our bank,
it generated an interest of US$1.5 Million, which we are about to be pay
to you.

For your information and advice, you need to hasten up to pick this
Fund because from time to time the Apex Bank auditors do come to our
bank to cross-check our files and our financial update, the earlier you
comply with the demands of the transferring of the fund, the faster the
action, because the Apex Bank officials wants the accrued interest to be
paid to them but we refused, so when they find out that this interest
fund is still in our bank they will want to call back the money to the
Government treasury.

What we need from you now is any form of your identification for
example; your international passport or you're driver's license, then
your telephone and fax number for easy communication with your receiving
bank account details.

As a matter of fact we don't have enough time to waste since we have
wasted time in contacting our respective customers, so try and comply
with the entire necessary requirement for remittance. Contact me on this
email: zenithbankngplccentral@yahoo.co.jp expecting you’re immediately
response.

For your information we are paying you for now US$1.5M

Make sure you reply me with this email address ;
zenithbankngplccentral@yahoo.co.jp

Your urgent response is imperative

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Ruth Owusu
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