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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: "Gordon M. Nixon" <info@usa.org>
Reply-To: royal.bankofcanada@onet.pl
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:20:30 +0100
Subject: ***SPAM*** RE- APPROVAL FOR FUND WIRE TRANSFER VALUED $10 MILLION UNITED STATES

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA(RBC)
200 Bay St., Royal Bank Plaza
Toronto, Ontario
M5J 2J5, Canada
mail to:Email: royal.bankofcanada@onet.pl

Date: 15/02 /2017.

RE- APPROVAL FOR FUND WIRE TRANSFER VALUED $10 MILLION UNITED STATES
DOLLARS ONLY).

PAYMENT REFERENCE NUMBER CODE 003543/14/026 CA.

We refer to the recent approvals from the country's origin of your
fund, and recent certified declarations by the Canadian authorities,
instructed us to establish processing of your outstanding payment
files with you for appropriate transfer instructions. We also
confirmed that an official Grand Administration Letter has been
received by us from the Federal Ministry Of Finance and the Accountant
Of the Federation to release your fund transfer with the above sum to
you.

Consequently, our bank have finally accepted and ready to send
remittance signals and carry on transfer to your designation bank
account upon completion of some legal steps approvals confirmations.
Therefore, you are to furnish us with your banking details and copy of
your driver's license id or international passport as stated on the
space below to enable us commence on the transfer procedures and
instructions for wire cable transfer in your favor as the owner/
beneficiary.

NAME OF YOUR BANK..........................................................................
YOUR BANK ADDRESS..........................................................................
YOUR BANK PHONE...................................FAX......................................
THE BANK ACCOUNT TO WIRE IN THE
SUM..................................................
ACCOUNT OWNER NAME..........................................................................
ACCOUNT ROUTING NO. ……………………………………………………………
ACCOUNT OWNER
ADDRESS..............................................................CITY.......
ACCOUNT OWNER PHONE.....................................FAX
......................IF ANY
YOUR AGE…………………………………………………………………………….
COPY OF YOUR ID CARD……………………………………………………………………
YOUR OCCUPATION:..........................
YOUR NEXT OF KIN:..........................

These information's must be reconfirmed by you to us urgently. Note
that you have not been a customer to our financial institution ever
before now, and as a result you are expected to come to our office and
open a non resident domiciliary offshore account and sign off the
official beneficiary's funds release documents (FRO) of the fund
before appropriate wire cable transfer instructions into your account
between now and 108 bank working Canadian hours.



As soon as you meet up with these demands, we shall not hesitate to
carry out a wire transfer of the above sum into your designated bank
account within 24 hours via the new non resident domiciliary account.

Congratulations on this development as we wait to hear from you urgently.

Yours Faithfully,
Gordon M. Nixon
Direct Office line --- +18039374640
President and Chief Executive Officer

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