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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: WORLD BANK <boss2@magnotlastman.onmicrosoft.com>
Reply-To: <rscotland6@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 06:48:22 -0500
Subject: RE: COMPENSATION PAYMENT

The World Bank, Office of the Special

Representative to the U.N.

1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

885 2nd Avenue, 26th Floor

New York, NY 10017, USA


Reference N0: WCFSXX/PO0-65RV


Scam Compensation sum of GBP1.7 million pounds approved in your name through
World Bank mass assisted project funds. This compensation involves business
investment failure, Inheritance, Contracts, Lottery, Dating, Diplomatic Payment,
E.T.C. The mass assisted fund was approved to settle failed business / scam
compensation.


ATTN SCAM VICTIM FUND BENEFICIARY


Please indicate if you have received your compensation funds sum of One Million
Seven Hundred Thousand Grate British Pounds (G.B.P $1.7M ) We have tried all our
possible means to contact you since your name and email were stated on the
manifest list submitted by the world bank external auditors but it failed and we
want to know if you are still alive ,so that we can finalized this transaction
once and for all.


We have received your name in the scam compensation list submitted by the
external affairs department of World Bank Switzerland; your name was submitted
through the secret security services of international scam watchers approved by
World Bank to compile names of fraud victims globally. Security watchers
verified intensively through their international server security detector device
that you have unknowing engaged in negative transactions with some group of
fraud syndicates operating to defraud unsuspected victims with none exiting
mouthwatering proposals, we are using this opportunity to inform you that the
transactions executed with those people were simply fraud, there was no money
approved in your name for any reason, they were manipulating your sense of
reasoning by using tricks that appears to be true with fabricated documents
which does not have any government approved serial number. Have you asked
yourself why they always demand for money consistently whenever they promised to
release the funds promised to you? How many times did you observe there
instructions and yet nothing was paid to you? The business you transacted with
them have never existed rather it was an avenue to extort your hard earned money
endlessly.


In furtherance, I presumed you must have been wondering why after paying all the
fees requested by them nothing was paid to you rather they enjoyed your hard
earned money without remorse of their evil deeds. The only funds approved in
your name is GBP1.7 million Pounds from the new world bank mass assisted
project, the scam compensation excise has absolute transparent background which
integrates financial service policy.


Finally, you have the opportunity to enjoy positive turnaround and renounce
again from what you have loss in the past to those syndicate if you corporate
and follow the official instructions mandated for the processing release of your
scam compensation already in your name.


The information we required to process your payment are under listed:


Your full Name:

Contact Address:

Mobile phone Number:

Office Phone Number:

Home Phone Number:

Fax#

Age or DOB:

A copy of ID by email attach:

Profession/Occupation:

Preferred email of contact if any other:


In receipt of these above details we shall proceed immediately with the new
policy guiding the releasing of your fund to you without any hindrances. You
have to keep your scam compensation process utmost confidential then submit any
further scam messages you receive for our perusal.


Waiting for your response


Regards,


Lewis Arlester Ricks

World Bank External Affair Dept

Scam Victim Project Monitory Unit

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