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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: Bank Of America Service <francorose@tin.it>
Reply-To: wwwonlinebankofamerica@accountant.com
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:21:24 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: BANK OF AMERICAN ONLINE ACCOUNT SETUP INSTRUCTION USD$37.500.000.00
DOLLARS

100 N Tryon St STE 170 Charlotte, NC 28202 US
Financial Center Monday - Thursday: 9:00 am.-4:00 pm.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday: Closed

BANK OF AMERICAN ONLINE ACCOUNT SETUP INSTRUCTION USD$37.500.000.00
DOLLARS

Attn: Online Beneficiary,

Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we
have in our database Before we proceed to set up your Bank of America
Personal Residential Online Account, we want to bring to your notice
the simple procedure to achieve this aim with our bank under my
supervision.First and foremost the origin of funds has previously
advised in my initial e-mail was from the United Nation Organization on
unpaid payments from deposit funds from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Your name and contact information was retrieved from the short listed
data on the file of the United Nation Organization.

If you try to recollect, you would remember conducted some businesses
in either of the mentioned three tier regions ( Africa, Asia and
Eastern Europe) and the purpose of selection was randomly made by the
United Nation Organization.Our bank stands out from all the presently
distressed banks in United State and Northern America to enable the
payment of your overdue transaction that has been pending for the past
several years released.

I want you to clearly understand that, I am here to serve you according
to the instruction from FBI, Homeland Securities of States and United
Nation Organization in particular.Moreover, I am not here to play any
kind of joke with you.The clearances from Federal Reserve Bank and US
Treasury Department to enable your online Transfer go smoothly has been
issue to our Bank.

Meanwhile, you have to clearly understand that, before we can set up a
new Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account for you here in
our bank, the activation fee must be paid by you and it will reflect in
our database and your original account which was instructed from United
nation will be activated.

You have to send the sum of $50 usd dollars i tunes card to activate
your Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account, this payment
will be credited to your Online account before we can fully remit the
amount value of US$37.500.000.00 United States Dollars This is why it
is important that we first of all receive the Bank of America Personal
Residential Online Account Activation fee in our bank, which in turn
would record and file the payment of $50 usd dollars i tunes card and
forward the information to our head quarters here in USA.

Then the funds would be received, in turn registered into the system
and once it is sighted, then an instruction would be issued out to that
effect and the documentation would be formally presented to Federal
Reserve Bank just as described in my most recent correspondence with
you explaining.

Please, if you can not afford to pay this US$50 i Tunes card don’t
reply to my e-mail; we don’t have time to beg you to set up Bank of
America Personal Residential Online under our supervision. once your
bye the $50 usd dollars i tunes card make sure your send the Copy of
the $50 usd dollars i tunes card here in Our Mail Address Okay,

Thanks

Regards
Mr. Harold Wesley
Email: Address [ wwwonlinebankofamerica@accountant.com]
Email: Address [ wwwonlinebankinfo@gmail.com]

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