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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: "US Bank" <officialtransfer@gmail.com>
Reply-To: officialtransfer@qq.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:18:17 -0400
Subject: Re: This is Fund Transfer Notice

U.S BANK HEADQUARTE
800 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Date: 06/25/2015

REF: SWIFT WIRE TRANSFER PROCESSING/MT 103 SINGLE CUSTOMER CREDIT TRANSFER

Dear Sir,

Without taking much of your time, I wish to introduce myself to you, my name is "Richard K. Davis", the President/Chief Executive Officer of the U.S bank. This good news letter is to inform you that we have held a meeting with the U.S Department of State, delegates from the British Government, InterPol and the Indian Governement. However, the subject of this meeting held yesterday in Washington D.C is to eradicate the act of scam, extortion and funds delay, which are presently significant with banks in Africa, London and Europe. In conclusion to this meeting, we (The US BANK) have been appointed as the accredited financial institution that will pay all local and foreign beneficiaries who have transactions with Nigeria and other African countries. You are quite lucky to be contacted today by this respectable bank for the release and transfer of your intercepted funds valued at US$10,500,000.00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only), which some greedy officials attempted to divert into a secret account in Switzerland.

For immediate payment, you need to fill out our "Transfer Assessment Form" which will be sent you via mail attached immediately you acknowledge to this mail.

Thank you for your basic understanding. Please take note that we operate under the GLOBAL BANKING STANDARDS and we carry out foreign exchange-related activities on behalf of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Treasury.

Officially Sealed by,

Richard K. Davis
Chairman of US BanCorp

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