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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. JOHN DEPASQUALE" <swqpost@tim.it>
Reply-To: radiusbankny@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 21:17:51 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam,


FROM THE DESK OF:MR. JOHN DEPASQUALE.
MANAGER, FOREIGN OPERATIONS
RADIUS BANK NY.


Dear Sir/Madam,


We have this 3rd of July, 2017, we received a payment credit
instruction from the United Nations , Federal Reserve Bank NY and IMF to
credit your
account with your compensation funds allocated in your name to the
tune of US$7.5Million (Seven million Five Hundred Thousand united states
dollars) from their
reserve accounts with us.

However, you are require 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.

You can contact us with the e-mail :radiusbankny@gmail.com

Thanks for banking with Radius Bank NY while we look forward to serving you.

Thanks and God bless you.

Regards,

MR. JOHN DEPASQUALE
DIRECTOR , CARLE PALME,
(Manager Foreign Operations, Radius Bank New York)
RADIUS BANK OF NEW YORK
You can contact us with the e-mail :radiusbankny@gmail.com



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