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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: "Don Jose Paglar" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <bancostdesp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:22:55 -0700
Subject: Re: Please acknowledge receipt of this mail

FROM THE DESK OF:DON JOSE PAGLAR.
MANAGER, FOREIGN OPERATIONS
MADRID SPAIN
 
 
Dear Sir,
 
 
We once again just received this 7th day of April, 2017, a credit
instruction from the United Nations and World bank to credit your
account with your compensation funds allocated in
your name to the tune of US$2Million (Two million United States
Dollars) from their reserve account with us. However, you are required
to re-confirming the following details as specified below to affect
the transfer aforementioned above to your designated account details:
 
 
 
{1}. Your Full Name and Address.
{2}. Your Confidential Tel, Cell and Fax.
{3). Your Bank name and address.
{4). Your A/c Name and A/c Numbers.
(5). Your Swift Code / Routing Numbers.
 
 
 
Please do provide the above information accurately, because this
office cannot afford to be held liable for any wrong transfer of funds
or liability of funds credited into a ghost account.
Thanks for banking with Banco Santander while we look forward to serving you.
 
Thanks and God bless you.
 
Regards,
Don Jose Paglar.
(Manager Foreign Operations, Banco Santander)
Alternative email: (j.paglar@yahoo.com)

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