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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. Gwendolyn Gillespie" (may be fake)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 09:10:55 -0800
Subject: ATTENTION

Hello!

We apologize for the delay of your payment and all the inconveniences that we might have inflicted you through. However, we wish to re-affirm the below irregularities from you before proceeding on effecting the transfer of your payment to the new account. Once again, did you by any means authorized one Mrs Elijah Rosa Laurich, a Lawyer by profession/ Managing Director, (G & T Enterprises, LLC) 818 Bare Branch Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89123, USA for a change of Bank account for onward transfer of your funds on your behalf?

PLEASE CONFIRM URGENTLY,FOR IMMEDIATE TRANSFER INTO THIS ACCOUNT TO AVOID FURTHER STATUTORY ANOMALIES.THE ACCOUNT OWNER (ELIJAH ROSA LAURICH) CLAIMED TO BE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SENT THE BELOW ACCOUNT STATEMENT ON YOUR BEHALF THAT YOU ARE IN A SICK BED, HENCE AUTHORIZED US TO TRANSFER OVER-DUE OUTSTANDING PAYMENT TO THIS NOMINATED BANK OF AMERICA ACCOUNT AS STATED BELOW:


BANK OF AMERICA

Las Vegas, NV Branch

Account Beneficiary: ELIJAH ROSA LAURICH

SWIFT Code: BOFAUS3N

Account No: 000232776421


If yes, you will need to provide us with the POWER OF ATTORNEY to this effect formally authorizing someone to change your account details for the transfer and also note that your inability to reconfirm to us and report immediately upon the receipt of this letter would be recall that you actually empowered her to claim your funds and we will not hesitate to effect transfer of the payment to the above Bank account within some days from now as we will not be held for any short coming there after.

So you are hereby advice to act accordingly in reporting to this office for immediate verification and confirmation before our proceedings. We look forward to your urgent confirmation.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Frieda Gillespie
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT.

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