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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: <"Tesco"@movie.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: <fcbukbank@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 20:37:13 +0100
Subject: Re: Payment of Your £500,000.00 Compensation

TESCO Bank UK
George House, 36 North Hanover Street
Glasgow, G1 2YF

Attn Beneficiary,

Re: Payment of Your £500,000.00 Compensation

I am Mr Benny Higgins, the CEO of Tesco Bank UK

This is to acquaint you on the outcome of our 1 day meeting with U.N International Financial Investigation Unit and the Association of Better Business Bureau to compensate scam victims upon due verification, which have jointly approved £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand British Pounds) as your compensation payment.

Your E-mail address was generated through the computer ballot system as one of the selected victim to receive this compensation.

Be informed that we will release the payment to you once we receive the following information's from you.

A copy of any of your identification
Your current resident address
Your mobile telephone number and fax

Furthermore, Upon the receipt of the above stated information’s, We will issue you a PIN code to receive your £500,000.00 from our paying center in your country in cash. This is to avoid the challenges regarding transferring huge amount from one country to another, hence we decided to pay you this way which is safer.

Finally, send us the required information and we will issue you a PIN code for payment collection in your country.

Cordially yours,

Mr. Benny Higgins
Chief Executive Office
TESCO Bank UK
Tel: +44 203 3180798; +44 7537 182844

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