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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: "Ctr Data" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <department.file009@post.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 02:33:06 +0300
Subject: Credited

Head Office Address
Karspeldreef  6A
1101 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
 
Credit Europe Bank Dubai Ltd.
Currency House Office Building,
1 Level 7, Unit 7, Al Fattan Area,
DIFC Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 
ref: Credit Europe Bank/DBI/002/DKFB
 
Attn: Beneficiary,
I'm aware of the unsafe nature of the internet explorer, but due to the prevailing circumstances. I don’t have any other option than to communicate with you through this medium for. I'm pleased to inform you about this information.I have on my desk an outstanding payment of your unclaimed payment with the bank informations below bank account:
BHUTAN NATIONAL BANK LTD
BENEFICIARY'S NAME: JIGME SINGYE UGYEN
A/C NO: 24533018
SWIFT CODE: BNBTBTBT
GPO BUILDING CHANG LAM THIMPHU BHUTAN PABX : 322281       
ADDRESS:RICBL BUILDING, NORZIN LAM City   THIMPHU
This payment was stopped because several applications have been forwarded with different account information’s with several affidavits of claim has been brought to our office requesting to transfer sum of $1.500,000 Million USD. I am sure you are not aware of this and the reason why this payment has not been released up till now.
Investigations carried out by my office shows that these applications above are not the real owners of this payments and their intentions is to divert this payment to a wrong beneficiary. Are you aware of this? your email address is boldly written on your file, hence I am using it to contact you.
In view of this development have therefore approved this payment to be delivered to you in by bank to bank transaction whom the bank uses for international assignment such as this and also in government circles honestly believe that you will show appreciation to me if you receive this payment in cash through this arrangement.
It is important that I inform you that during the cause of our investigation, we discovered that you were among the beneficiaries of contract payments who went into wrong hands to get their payments and were eventually duped, deceived and they became frustrated, hence you are advice to discontinue any communication whatsoever you are having with anybody who is promising to help you in getting this payment. Because no other person can release this payment except me as i am directly in charge of every payment approved by the government such as this.
contact our correspondent via your claim on email: department.file009@post.com
For your own security reasons, this special arrangement should be kept very confidential between you and this office only. You are kindly hereby requested to confirm the receipt of this mail and respond to this arrangement immediately.upon my receipt of your response, I will furnish you with the details of the transfer.
Thanks for your understanding .
 
Yours Faithfully,
Head Office Address
Karspeldreef 6A
1101 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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