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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: "MRS. VERONICA WILSO" <revjackchukwu@gmail.com>
Reply-To: www.ecobakonlinetransfer@outlook.com
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:19:11 +0100
Subject: Dear Beneficiary:

Attention My Dear:

Dear esteemed customer, we are informing you of our successful
arrangement to transfer your full compensation winning fund of
$2.5million dollars via new banking system of online with ECO BANK
Benin which is affiliated with world bank of Switzerland, The money is
no more to be deliver to you by Western Union/Money gram ATM
/DHL/FedEx/UPS due to many unforeseen fees and charges demanded by
them this $2.5m of yours is now in the ECO BANK Custody under the
care and control of MR BENJAMIN IHEKERE okay.

Be inform that this banker will set up a new overseas account from
their bank and shall provide you with the account information which
shall use to access the account anywhere in the whole word, none
residence account is what they will open for you and all your total
fund shall appear in the account once you have log into the account
with the account information they will give you after they have set up
the online bank account, This account shall take them only 3hours to
be opened on your behalf after they have gotten your re-confirmation
information sequel as it's writing below:

Full name:
City:
Country
Address:
mobile and office phone number:
Passport number:
Marital status:
Gender:
Age:
Occupation:

Endeavor to send the bankers the above listed information with their
contact information below:

BANK MANAGER: . MR BENJAMIN IHEKERE
EMAIL: www.ecobakonlinetransfer@outlook.com


Contact them with above information to ensure they set up online bank
account bearing your name for you to access and get the money
transferred into your nominated account of your choice over there,Give
us an update once you have successfully receive your fund $2.5million
into your account any where you wish,

YOUR FUND WILL BE TRANSFER TO YOU IN NEXT 45 MINUTE TODAY

SINCERELY YOUR
MRS. VERONICA WILSO

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