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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: "WELLS FARGO BANK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wellsfargbank05@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:34:45 -0800
Subject: Pls Contact Mr Thomas Grant Penley for your due payment .....

Attn:

This is to humbly informed you that your fund has been approved for
transfer into your bank account,after been appointed some few months ago we
find out that your outstanding due payment was been withheld for long ,now
that the fund have been approved i will advise you to be serious and
claimed your fund once and for all.

And the only fee needed now from you is $12,900 to pay the mentioned document
for the transfer of your $27.9m and to get all legal document signed and pay all
international subsidiaries fees and IMF,immediately all this legal fee is paid the
transfer will reflect in your bank account without any delays.

Take note that the said fee $12,900 must be paid by you first before the transfer
is done,and the fee is to use and pay all international subsidiaries including the
IMF,CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER and CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP, Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) if this fee is paid and all international fee is cleared the
transferred will be successful.

As soon as we hear from you we shall give you instructions on how to wire
the $12,900 to bank account to enable the commence of the transferred fund.


PLEASE DON'T RESPOND BACK IF YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OR READY
TO PAY THE $12,900 FEE TO GET THOSE DOCUMENT MENTIONED TO
ENABLE THE TRANSFER OF YOUR SAID FUNDS TRANSFER TO YOUR
BANK ACCOUNT..

Bank Contact.

Mr Bob Andrew
Email:wellsfargo_thomaspenley@usadmin.org
Email:wellsfargo@wellsfargobank.usadmin.org

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