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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. Douglas Edward" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.douglas_edward@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 09:33:28 +0100
Subject: IMMEDIATE ORDER FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR OVERDUE FUND?

WORLD BANK NIGERIA
ADDRESS:Plot10,Engineering close,off Idowu Taylor Alimosho Lagos- Nigeria
EMAIL: dwbron@outlook.com
Tel:+ 234-8122038715
OUR REF: WB-FGA/WB4/16
YOUR REF: (WB/WBN/FGA)..00/16
BATCH: 807-2016-550/188/16
Date: 5th Feb,2016
  Congratulations and this is to finally inform you today that
approval has been successfully issued for the final transfer of your
long awaited overdue inheritance fund after the just concluded meeting
which lasted for 5hour as part of our compensation for all Scam
victims with the sum of $10,500,000.00 (Ten Million Five Hundred
Thousand United State Dollars Only) approved as part of the World
Bank, mass assisted project funds.
This compensation involves business investment failure, Inheritance,
Contracts, Lottery, E.T.C. The mass assisted fund was approved by the
World Bank to settle all beneficiaries who have been involved as Scam
Victims in the long hope to receive there inherited fund as part of
the resolution exercise signed today during the just concluded
meeting.
I presume you must have been wondering why after paying all the fees
requested by those crooks nothing was paid to you rather they enjoyed
your hard earned money without remorse of their evil deeds. Note your
fund was approved so that you can invest into your own private
business, as part of our financial growth to settle all Debt, as
reconciliation from the World Bank, and we have agreed to waived all
outstanding charges as a way of compensating you for the lost as
Scam-victim, in the past.
Having waived all the charges for you, bear you in mind that you will
only be required to pay for the processing VALIDATION/UPDATING of your
payment file to your current details which cost you the amount $95 USD
fees, which remains the only charges expected of you to pay for the
final receiver of your approved long awaited inheritance overdue
payment designated to be release to you as a compensation fund without
any delay.
Following the preparation to release your fund. Note, we advice that you also reconfirm immediately the under listed details for proper
verification exercise.
FULL NAME:............................................
HOME ADDRESS:.......................................
DIRECT PHONE/FAX NUMBER:........................................
BANK NAME:............................................
BANK ADDRESS:...........................................
ACCOUNT NUMBER:.........................................
SWIFT CODE:...............................................
ROUTING NUMBER:..........................................
ACCOUNT NAME:.............................................
IDENTIFICATION EITHER PASSPORT OR DRIVERS LICENSE
You are therefore advice to send your processing VALIDATION/UPDATING
fees amount $85 USD through Western Union Money Transfer or via money
gram to my secretary name as provided below and text me via SMS OR
call to this number: Tel:+ 234-8122038715 for payment details after
sending the fees for security reasons.
NAME:  Jude Iwu
ADDRESS:LAGOS- NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION:IN GOD
ANSWER:WE TRUST
AMOUNT:$85 USD
I enclose my International Passport and official I:D card for transparency.
Thanks for your Co-Operation
Douglas Edward
Director World Bank Regional Office (Nigeria)
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