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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. David Semmens CFA, FRM Senior Foreign Operations Manager" <officesfilerecord@gmail.com>
Reply-To: "Mr. David Semmens CFA, FRM Senior Foreign Operations Manager" <gstandardcharteredbankplc@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:54:13 +0900 (JST)
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR . DAVID SEMMENS CFA,FRM


Standard Chartered Bank PLC
GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS
Standard Chartered Bank
1 Basinghall Avenue
London, EC2V 5DD, United Kingdom
Tel: 44 (0)702-4059569
Fax: 44 (0)8704711233
Our Ref: RW/NU/021/4401

We apologies for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences we might put you through, while we were having some minor problems with our payment system which in all case not meeting up with fund beneficiary payments, we apologies once again.
From the records of outstanding contractors due for payment with united kingdom london your name was discovered as next on the list out of the 11 outstanding contractors who have not yet received their payments during the 3 years tenure of the previous administration in office please bear with us for making this initial contact through email. Meanwhile, a woman came to this bank a few days ago with a letter claiming to be your true representative. Here is her information’s below.
Name: Mrs.jeffery kate
Bank name: Citibank , cimetière avion, Fawn Creek,, USA .
Account Number: 6503809008
Routing number: 322271627
Swift code#:WMSBUS66
Address: 1700 car ave
Palmdale ca..93550
Please do reconfirm to this bank as a matter of urgency if this woman is from you or not so that the government will not beheld responsible for paying into wrong account, if this woman is not your representative, you requested to fill and send this information’s for verifications purpose so that your fund valued ($1.800, 000.00 usd) will be remitted in to your nominated bank account.
Kindly reconfirm to the bank the following
1. Bank Name:
2. Bank account number:
3. Route number:
4. Swift code:
5. Bank name:
6. Company name:
7. Position:
8.Address:
9. Working Id/ int’l Passport
10. Age:
11. Your telephone number
As soon as this information is received, your funds will be wired to your bank account directly from Standard Chartered Bank Plc, London. We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mrs. jeffery john Kate if we do not hear from you within the next three working days from today. We are sorry for any inconvenience the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you.
You alerted reply urgent
Sincerely.

Mr. David Semmens CFA, FRM
Senior Foreign Operations Manager
Swift Payment Unit
Standard Chartered Bank Plc, London
THANK YOU FOR BANKING WITH US
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