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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: "David Williams" (may be fake)
Reply-To: < david.williams101@consultant.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 10:17:35 +0100
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary,



I hope that this correspondence is received with the urgency and expediency

required.



It has come to the notice of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Reserve

Bank here in Washington, D.C. that your present inheritance claims

application being handled by the Remitting Bank in Nigeria is experiencing

some man made irregularities. To this effect, it has become necessary for

the Board of Trustees to assign trained Fund Transfer Specialists from the

United States to resolve and regularize your fund release with immediate

effect.



We at David Williams & Consults have been duly consulted by the FRB Board

of Trustees. We have been fully informed about how the staffs of the

remitting bank has been taking advantage of you by telling you to pay

unnecessarily exorbitant charges which will only make your fund payment a

long drawn out process.



Due to this development, we have been assigned to step into the immediate

processing of your fund transfer to enable your funds to be transferred to

you within the shortest possible time. To implement this, you are to get

back to us immediately without needing to pay all the huge sums of monies

that are being demanded from you by the previous handlers at the remitting

bank.



All processes to have your funds paid to you immediately through the CBN's

Liaison Remittance Office in New York have been initiated to cut out

unnecessary costs.



You are advised to treat this communication with the urgency and

seriousness required as the Board of Trustees of the Federal Reserve Bank

has mandated us to resolve this fund payment within the next three working

days independent of the office of the Remitting Bank in Africa.



Furthermore,you are hereby advised to pay no further fees or charges to the

Remitting Bank in Nigeria as they shall no longer be handling your payment


process.



We shall await your immediate correspondence with your direct telephone

numbers to my private email address at (dwilliams.consults@gmail.com) for

re-confirmation so that we may conclude your payment immediately.



Yours Sincerely,

David Williams & Consults.

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