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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: "Standard Capital Finance Bank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <standardcapitalfinancebank@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 05:37:48 +0200
Subject: Dear: Customer

 
STANDARD CAPITAL FINANCE BANK PLC
TENNESSEE FRIENDSHIP TN 38034
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
 
Dear: Customer
 
 
On behalf of  bank managements i am contacting you today the 3th day of July 2021 on the update on this last process  of  Converting your total funds from Euros  to United States dollars  which is why you were on able to receiver your united nations compensation funds as your funds  has been transferred to you by the united nations  from  euros ATM CARD and all the atm machine in your state  only dispense in United States Dollar, after two days meeting with the managements of United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) from  Geneva Switzerland which ended on 1st day of July 2021 we the standard capital  finance bank managements have been mandated to issue you a new ATM MASTER CARD  worth $10.7 million us dollars to your name   which is the last process is to enable you make your cash  withdraws  of  $50,000:00 out from your new ATM MASTER CARD each day  and as we have stated in meeting with
 
Thank you for banking with us
 
Regards
Mr. Eric Phillip
Email: customerservice@scfbplc.com
Tel: +1(443) 620-0284
 

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