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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: "Bank of America" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bakofamericinhert@outlook.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:59:49 -0000
Subject: ELECTRONIC BANKING SERVICE.

ELECTRONIC BANKING SERVICE.
BOA REF: BAN/IRU/SFE/FUP/OR/-VOL.1/2015(KMM109469283I58L0KM)
AUTHORIZED AND SPONSORED BY: US-EURO INC.
BANK EMAIL: CUSTOMERCARE@BANKOFAMERICA.COM

TEL: 800.432.1000

Our Ref: BOFAUS3N/15

Dear Customer,

I wish to bring to your notice that you have an accrued interest worth of us$3.5million in our bank to claim. It was discovered during the year 2014 auditing for first quarter contract files review, the records shows that couple of years ago, your fund was deposited in bank of America from Federal Reserve Bank through IMF and after some period, the fund (Deposit) was withdrawn back to the federal government treasury. For the period of time your fund was in our bank, it generated an interest worth of us$3.5 million, which you are not aware of. NOTE: Your MT199 Prove of Fund for $3,5M accrued interest payment with Transaction Reference No#(BOA/xxxx-107999/FRB/7535/2015) is ready to be sent to your local bank.

For your information and advice, you need to hasten up to pick this Fund because from time to time the National Lotto Group auditors do come to our bank to cross-check our files and our financial update, the earlier you comply with the demands of the transfer of the fund, the faster the action, because when the auditors arrive and find out that this interest fund is still in our bank they will call back the accrued interest to the U.S Lotto Treasury account.

We need you to forward any form of your identification for example; you’re International passport or your driver license, your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication with you. We also need your account details and bank direct TELEPHONE NUMBER to enable us open up and establish a contact with your local bank for swift transfer of the accrued interest worth of us$3.5million.

Once we establish a contact with your local bank, they will call you to notify you about the transfer coming from us (BOA). Please ensure that you reconfirm the bank number that you stored in your phone so that you will be able to know when your bank is calling you.

This is your payment (ref. Number (BOA/xxxx-107999/FRB/7535/2015).

Expecting your immediate response.

Yours sincerely,

Bank of America

This message and any attachments are solely for the use of the intended recipients. They may contain privileged and/or confidential information or other information protected from disclosure. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system.

Thank You

BY: /s/ Brian T. Moynihan
Authorized Signature.

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