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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: james collins <"wwwwww."@lily.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: james collins <ubabank4444@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:14:36 +0900 (JST)
Subject: YOUR ONLINE BANK WIRE TRANSFER

(UBA) LINERPOOL, M60 4EP
E-mail: (ubabank4444@gmail.com)
PHONE: +229 68897839,
Contact person: Mr. James Collins

Director/ Foreign Affairs Ops Dept

YOUR ONLINE BANK WIRE TRANSFER

The Remittance of Your Fund $15.5Million To Your Personal Bank Account: I
believe you are alive and doing well to be reading this important and urgent
E-
mail from the sub-regional office of the UBA Republic of Benin, I am writing
you this mail with urgent concern to officially inform you that our GPS Network
Server System (GPS NSS) recently detected an unknown Fund Transfer Payment File
system

(FTP File) valued at $15.5million, after our investigation on the FTP file we
discovered your name and data information on the file confirming you as the
Payment Receiver so we presented the FTP file to the World Bank Department of
Europe sub-region, so therefore we have now been authorized to wire this fund
directly to your Personal Bank Account because your Fund Transfer Payment file
was officially

cleared with a Bill of Clean Sheet as your name and data information was
clearly verified on the FTP file that was detected by our GPS NSS.We also wish
to inform you that a Domiciliary Account must be opened for you here in this
our bank where your fund must be lodged in before it is properly processed for
our Online Bank Transfer, so you are also requested to fill out the Account
Opening Form as requested below,REQUESTED INFORMATION FOR NEW ACCOUNT (Non
residential account)

Your First Name:______________________
Your Middle Name:_____________________
Your Last Name:_______________________
Your Address:_________________________
City:_________________________________
Your Country:__________________________
Your Occupation:_______________________
Tel Number:______________________________
Marital Status:________________________
Date of Birth:_________________________
Name Of Bank : _________________________
Account Number:___________________________
Bank Address : __________________________
Routing Number:___________________________
Swift Code:____________________________
Next of Kin:____________________________
Mobile Number:____________________________
Private E-mail:____________________________
Copy Of Your ID Card: __________________________

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