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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: "Anshula Kant" <support@ebeli.com.my>
Reply-To: kantemailexclusive@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 17:17:45 GMT
Subject: PLEASE CONFIRM NOTICE


PLEASE CONFIRM NOTICE

You may not Understand why this mail came to you. A joint meeting was held
by the World Bank Group Board Executives with the Senate Committee on
Foreign Debts Reconciliation and Implementation Panel on
Beneficiary/Inheritance fund under category E, concerning all the scam
victims worldwide, which was addressed and headed by the two bodies. It
became imperative to contact you on the subject matter.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed or extorted money
from due to advance fee fraud and all retired workers who have not received
their Gratuity benefit from the government of their country.

The World Bank Group and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have agreed
to compensate each and everyone of you, with the sum of Five Million United
States Dollars. This includes retired pensioners, every foreign
contractors/Next of kin and people that have had an unfinished transaction
or International businesses that failed due to Government problems or
irregularities. In the meeting, it was concluded that all potential
Compensation beneficiary fund should be PAID by Telegraphic Bank Transfer
and send to their bank account in their country respectively.

All beneficiaries were selected through a global random integrated system
drawn in a million E-mail addresses via the Internet and lucky
beneficiaries do not have to purchase any ticket to benefit in this
Compensation program. Your email is in our list and that is why we are
contacting you, it has been agreed upon and have been signed by the World
Bank Group Board of Directors.

Reconfirm your full details such as: Full Name: Tel Number: Address: Age:
Sex: and your file Reference Number below (WBG-90920_GC) for your
compensation payment.

Regards,
Mrs. Anshula Kant (MD & Chief Financial Officer World Bank Group)
CC: Mr. Christopher A. Wray (FBI, Director)
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NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is
because of the restrictions implemented by your Internet Service Provider,
we (World Bank Group) urge you to treat it genuinely.



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