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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. Thomas" <"www."@honey.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Thomas K" <mrthomaskmontage1@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:02:18 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Dear esteemed customer,

BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Co-Chief Operating Officer Of Bank of America
New York City.
RE/NO: 002-BOA/0047/2016
Founded: 1928
Transfer Release Update

Dear esteemed customer,

On behalf of the entire staff of the Bank of America, The Management of the Bank of

America Corporate Office Headquarters here in New York City, wishes to inform you that

after a brief meeting held by the Co-Chief Operating Officer Of Bank of America on the

18th of this Monday, we deem it appropriate to intimate you that your funds will be

transferred into the bank account given by the Government Of Benin Republic as the Country

Originator of this Fund if you failed to send the required fee, According to the record we

got from our payment Office due to your inability to complete the transaction and your
failure to meet up with a payment obligation. The actual transfer of your funds US$11.5

Million to the bank account given by the Government Of Benin Republic as the Country

Originator of this Fund comes up next 3 days. because Government Of Benin
Republic as the Country Originator has agreed to pay any fees regards to this transaction

because the funds in question is all your funds that came from Benin Republic which was

seized since by the USA Government which was total of $11.5 Million Us Dollars .

The United States Insurance Policy fee is mandatory for any transfer of funds here in the

USA involving amounts above $1,000,000.00 (One million USD): The amount to be transferred

into your account is US$11.5 Million and is far above $1 Million. This is why the

$300.00usd fee is required and the fee cannot be deducted from source in accordance with

section 3 subsection 2(a) of the Huge Funds Transfer Regulation Act HFTRA of
2008 promulgated by law after the terrorist attack on our dear country.

Meanwhile, note that this is the only fees that you will bear the cost and your approval

funds sum of US$11.5 Million (Eleven Million and Five hundred thousand Dollars) will be

transfer to you without any delays, and we are doing Auditing for the year
2017, so we want your funds US$11.5 Million to be transferred into your nominated bank

account the same day we receive this fees from you or we contact Government Of Benin

Republic as the Country Originator to pay the fee and receive the funds. We
are doing banking Auditing for the year 2017, so we advise you to treat as matter of

urgency and try as much as possible you can to raise and come up with the fees of

$300.00usd dollars for (Fund Legality Certificate and Bulk Money Transfer Permit
Certificate) and send it to Bank of America Accountant Officer in Benin as the funds

origin /Cashier Office within 72 hours you receive this email, so that we can transfer

your Funds into your bank account before closing for the day, We are doing
banking Auditing for the year 2017 and all unclaimed fund will be cancel and send back to

Government Of Benin Republic as the Country Originator.

Note that if you still wish to receive your funds do get back to us immediately so that we

will remove your funds transfer from the list of those transactions to be transfer to

Government Of Benin Republic as the Country Originator. Also be informed that we need only

a Fund Legality Certificate and Bulk Money Transfer Permit Certificate to complete the
wire transfer. The fee to obtain the Fund Legality Certificate and Bulk Money Transfer

Permit Certificate was reduced from $300.00usd so You are required to send the fee of

$300.00usd by money gram only to the Bank of America Accountant Officer in
Benin/Cashier Office where your transaction originated as stated below: I need your urgent

reply and congratulations.

If we receive the MTCN today, we will transfer your funds
US$11,500,000.00 (Eleven Million _ Five hundred thousand Dollars)

before we close office and the funds will reflect 3 hours after the
transfer. We will send you all the transfer documents to

enable you start making cash withdrawals from your account same day
the funds are transferred. We have waited for so long and

we cannot continue to wait.If we do not hear from you within the next
72 hours from today. We are sorry for any inconvenience

the delay in transferring of your fund must have caused you.

TAKE NOTE ON THE PAYMENT INFORMATION BY MONEY GRAM ONLY.

RECEIVERS NAME: =======NELSON ONWURAH
COUNTRY: ==========Benin republic
CITY : ========== Cotonou
QUESTION: === =======Ok
ANSWER: === ========Ok
AMOUNT TO SEND: === $300.00usd
Sender's name(......................)?
MTCN Number(..........................)?
And you full address(....................)?

We need your urgent reply and congratulations, SEND YOUR REPLY TO
(mrthomaskmontage1@gmail.com) NB: THIS TRANSACTION IS BEING

MONITORED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO GUARDS US FOR
INTERNET IMPOSTORS.

Mr. Thomas K. Montage,
Co-chief Operating Officer,
Bank of America Office New York.

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