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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. Robert L. Owen" <"info."@cocoa.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mr. Robert L. Owen" <Eastwest_bank@usa.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 07:30:28 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From East West Bank Of United States of America

Urgent Attention:

I am Mr. Robert L. Owen, the Manager of East West Bank Of United States of America. We are contacting you based on the instruction from Mrs. Nikki Haley, the U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, following their recent Extraordinary meeting held with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional leaders concerning settlement of Foreign Debts and finding ways to abolish governments stringent conditions imposed by some of their financial institutions prior to transfer foreigners inheritance and Prize funds.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and United Nations (UN) having watched these ugly developments and has come up with the following resolutions to compensate each foreigners whom were denied the opportunity of receiving their funds years back with the sum of USD850,000.00 and you are among the 257 persons listed to receive this compensation payment of US$850,000.00.

It might interest you to know that the total sum of $218,450,000.00 USD (TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ) was approved on behalf of the 257 individuals whom were opportune to receive this compensation payment including you,and we are contracted to split the payments to each beneficiaries. Be inform that all modalities regarding your fund release has been put in place with East West Bank Of United States of America, besides, your fund has been made ready for transfer through our electronic transfer system and what we need from you now is to provide us with the bank account of your choice which you expect us to expedite the accreditation of your US$850,000.00 compensation.

Note, that in regards to the Patriot Act, which was adopted in response to the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks, also intended to strengthen U.S. measures to prevent, detect, and prosecute international money laundering and the financing of terrorism, you will be required to pay the sum of $250 for procurement of ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CLEARANCE (AMLC) from IMF Resident office USA, according to the demand of the U.S department of homeland Security.

filled this info after the payment.
1,your account name....................
2,your account number....................
3,your routing number.....................
4,your next of kin....................
5, your date of birth....................
6, your bank address...................
7, your phone number...................

Finally, we will commence the rectification of fund ownership on your behalf and proceed to transfer your compensation fund totaling the sum of US$850,000.00 direct to your bank account immediately you can forward the above required information to us and send the $250 to IMF Resident Office USA, for the procurement of the ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CLEARANCE (AMLC). Have a wonderful day as we will be waiting for your timely response.You can call or text this number +1 {805}298-7681 or Email at Eastwest_bank@usa.com

Yours Sincerely
Mr. Robert L. Owen (Manager)
East West Bank Of United States of America,
253 5th Avenue SE, Olympia, WA 98501 Washington
REPLY TO: { Eastwest_bank@usa.com }

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