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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: Monica Banky <customer1@hutrel.pl.tn>
Reply-To: <igdgd@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 03:45:27 -0800
Subject: Re: Claim Notification


United Nations Assisted Program
UN Directorate of International Payment/Transfer Notice
3 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EL

To whom it may concern!

In accordance with the United Nation (UN) mandatory policy on internationa=
l monetary transactions and in conjunction with the World financial policy.=
This notification is in respect of your Un-claimed Funds which file was fo=
rwarded to us by the WORLD BANK. Going by the security report before us you=
have gone through hard times paying lot of charges for the release of your=
Fund without success. We advice you to seize further communications with a=
ny individual, Bank or its Agents regarding your fund, because they have no=
thing to offer you, rather they will continue to steal from you. And any fu=
rther dealing with this miscreants will be at your own risk.

Following the issuance of the Foreign Exchange Approval to the Gulf Intern=
ational Finance Centre london on the recommendation of the United Nations P=
rotocol's Blue Book "Permanent Missions No. 295", issued in October 2015 wi=
th ST/SG/SER.A/295/Add.5. I am pleased to inform you that Gulf Internationa=
l Finance London Centre have been giving the sole mandate for release of yo=
ur payment.

However, we have a problem at hand presently. We have a Memo from the Gulf=
International Finance Centre london that you are dead. That an application=
was submitted by one Mrs. Jennifer Monsivais few days ago with a letter of=
authorization, claiming to be your family legal representative who has the=
family mandate to claim the fund on your behalf. And the below banking inf=
ormation's was submitted:

BANK NAME: BANK OF AMERICA,
ACCOUNT NAME: JENNIFER MONSIVAIS
ROUTING NUMBER: 011024389
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 233012734259
SWIFT CODE: BOTAWS7N
BANK ADDRESS: 13810 Oakview Cove San Antonio TX 78245

Can anyone presently using this email account kindly confirm your knowledg=
e of Mrs. Jennifer Monsivais as mandated by your family to avoid wrongful p=
ayment. Please confirm to this email ( infogulfinternationalfinance@gmail.c=
om ) if it was agreed for Mrs. Jennifer Monsivais to receive the fund. If n=
ot, i want you to urgently reconfirm to the bank the right banking detail w=
here the fund should be transfer to and your personal information.

The bank is look forward to a swift response from the family. And be less =
assure your advice will be carried to the latter. And if our directives are=
carefully followed, the fund will be release to the account within five Ba=
nk working days.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Monica Banky
Director Operations
Payment/Transfer unit



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