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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: "TRAVIS MOORE" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <idealtas147@bk.ru>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:44:24 +0100
Subject: Re: DO NOT IGNORE

Head Office
32 Long Way,
Communaut? Fran?aise,
1020 Brussels Belgium.
Attention!
My name is Travis Moore, i am the head financial advisor of Commercial Offshore National Bank Brussels Belgium. I am responsible for the disbursement of an awarded funds worth the sum of US$3,560,000.00 donated by the IBM Incentive Compensation Management in collaboration and granted access by the department of Monetary Control Asset for United Nations. This compensation is as a result of your loyalty to the IBM community through the years. Our office had received a notification that several attempts has been made to deliver, transfer or even offshore the funds, but all was a dead end without knowing the reason why.
Today being the 12th of Fabruary 2019, a power of attorney was forwarded to our office by two gentle men, one of them is an American national name MR. HARRY SICILIANO by name while the other person is MR. JAMES IGNACIO MILLAN by name, a CANADIAN national. This gentlemen claimed to be your representative, and this power of attorney stated that you are dead. They brought an account to replace your information in other to claim your fund of US$3,560,000.00 ( THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN DOLLARS ) which is now lying DORMANT and UNCLAIMED at the Commercial Offshore National Bank Brussels Belgium, below is the new account they have submitted:
BANK NAME: STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
BANK ADDRESS: 1095 AVENUE OF THE AMERICA NEW YORK CITY, NY 10036
ACCOUNT #: 00200000634 Numero de ABA
SWIFT-CODE: 026002561
Be further informed that this power of attorney also stated that you suffered and died of throat cancer, therefore; you are advise and given 48 hours to confirm the truth in this information, If you are still alive, You are to get back to me immediately, because we work 24 hours just to ensure that we monitor all the activities going on in regards to the transfer of inheritance beneficiaries fund/contract payment.
As the head financial advisor, i will guide you on three (3) key steps to get your funds without any further hassle that you have seen. Funds will be transfer directly to your Bank account. Once you reply to this mail, reconfirm your details and immediately i confirm that they correspond to that which we have in our database/cloud. I will give you direct instruction to make this deposit/disbursement possible for you to confirm in your account within the next 3-5 business days. Each steps comes with a price that is paid upon the confirmation funds.
Note this email and confirm. If i did not read back from you, then we will have no choice than to forward payment to the two gentlemen who claim to be your attorney and next of kin. They are willing and ready to cooperate with whatever demands required of them to get funds deposited to their offshore account immediately. This is why we suspected them and since none of them have your last name, we find it fishy. Your swift response is duly needed.
Travis Moore
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CFO/COO Fund AuthorizatioN Manager
32 Long Way,
Communaut? Fran?aise,
1020 Brussels Belgium
Tel: Please Request
Email: Please Request

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