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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: MRS ANNA COLLE <revmacwiliams1957@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 10:43:09 +0100
Subject: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Att:

We are contacting you via this email which we believe belongs to you
since it was seen in your file with the payment department of the
World Bank team of auditors with the United Kingdom.However,this
office was set up by the World Bank President in conjunction with the
IMF and United Nations. This was after receiving series of petitions
and litigation from several beneficiaries of all sorts of Outstanding
payment, Contract outstanding payment, Inheritance/Next of Kin
etc,which originated from Africa and got to do with some Banks in
London and other European countries. The World Bank has set aside the
sum of 5 billion Dollars to settle all these, and debit the
countries/Central Bank/s where a particular transaction originated
from.

Based on this, we have asked and received all the payment files that
fall into the region we are covering for now hence your name and
information was found in one of the files. As we proceeded by going
through the documents and other official protocol before advising the
paying bank to contact you, we noticed a letter of change of account
which was filed last year stating that you want your funds to be
transferred to this account at USA.

Bank:Bank of America
1121 N 205th St, Shoreline, Wa 98133.
Bank routing number: 125000024.
Bank account number: 5319678606.
Account Holders name: John Grimely

This raised an eye brow with us. We want to ascertain the legitimacy
of this change of account for us to be free from any misdirection of
funds. As soon as you confirm the ownership of the above stated
account we shall proceed with the processing and approval of your
transfer to your nominated Bank account.Please get back to us via our
email: (MRS-ANNA-COLLEE@email.com)

MRS ANNA COLLE.

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