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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. Rosemary Morison" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <godswillita225@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:16:31 +0800
Subject: INFORMATION

Dear Sir/Madam,

The subject below is the reason why we contacted you but whereby you have no confidence in us, my dear, advice us right away to put a Rebate for total cancellation to your Approved and Confirmed Fund Release and Crediting to you¡­.



SUBJECT: YOUR OVERDUE PAYMENT CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL FOR IMMEDIATE TRANSFER TO YOU



With deep concern, we write to bring to your notice that your, More Than Overdue Payment valued US$10,701,000.27 only has been Re-Programmed and Scheduled for immediate onward Fund Swift Wire Transfer direct to you without further delay of any kind. This came up after the just concluded meeting with Our Foreign Reserved Unit which after our diligent investigations, we discovered the reason (s) involved as the attitude of the Non-Remittance of your due payments to you, the Bank of |England (BOE) and other Financial apparatus gave the fellowship reasons to be responsible for the Non-Remittance of your More Than Overdue Inheritance Payment as follows:-



1. We discovered that, incessant applications for change of your Original Bank Details by several applicants/Persons who claimed to be your Local/Legal Representatives led to a great suspicion by our Apex Bank of the Land, the Bank of England (BOE), and the British Financial Securities & Foreign Exchange Commission, International Fund Transfer Department which gave room for Re-Examination of your payment file. However, during our recent review before we appointed Mrs. Rosemary Morison, the Financial Risk Controller, as authorized and employed by our Apex Bank of the Land, the Bank of England (BOE), to pay you and few others cleared who we are now re-opening contact with including you for more history note, we have already done a lot researches so as to discover the ROOT CAUSE of Non-Remittance of your payment and we ended up in ascertaining your Fund to be free from other allegations ready for immediate transfer to you.



2. Furtherance to the above information, we do hereby write to apologize to you and to say, on behalf of the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland Government and International Communities, we are solemnly sorry for all the delay, we also discovered that, you have lost a lot of Money in the past in pursuance of this Fund to you, however, all the Board of the Directors and other authorities of this Bank, has unanimously agreed and accepted to remit your More Than Overdue Payment to you without further delay of any kind, on our receipt payment confirmation slip of your Currency Fluctuation Marginary Differences sum of, US$10,701.27 only without delay of any kind, so you are by this letter advised to co-operate with the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland Government on Her directives to avoid mistakes of any kind that may attract or lead to cancellation or withdrawal of whatsoever kind. However, you still reserved the right to say that you are not ready and interested to recei
ve your Money because from all in



Response should be made immediately to this letter to enable us forward your payment particulars and Voucher to the appropriate department for immediate releasing and transferring of your Fund to you, your failure to comply or response to this letter after Three (3) working days may lead to a total and final cancellation/recalling back of your approved and scheduled payment into United Kingdom & Northern Ireland Government Suspense Account for keep



Sincerely yours,

For: Wells Fargo Bank UK.
Mrs. Rosemary Morison
Financial Risk Controller,

Tel: +447 937 0260 09
At Wells Fargo Bank UK,
International Remittance Department

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