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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: COMPENSATION FUNDS <ahmadbalaubale@gmail.com>
Reply-To: legitoffice@indamail.hu
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 13:42:59 -0800
Subject: Compensation Funds

DATE: Friday 4th March 2022

We are the International Monetary Fund (IMF),Investigation Bureau
Department in conjunction with Homeland Securities and
other relevant Investigation agencies, we hereby to inform you that we
recently received several reports through our Global intelligence
monitoring networks that you had a transaction in which wasn't
accomplished after a series of processes and requires further
procedures.

Consequently we finally traced the location of your overdue
compensation funds and
ordered the dispatch or transmitting of the funds to a safe
custody,the UNITED ALLIANCE CREDIT UNION BANK ONLINE(UACU).the
mentioned Online Bank institute will be facilitating the transferring
of the funds to you as soon as possible Via Online Banking.

this decision was made due to the rate of corruption and scam reports
perpetrated by Individuals and Government offices, companies in
UK,Europe,Asia,Africa therefore your funds were ordered to be moved or
transferred to the safe Bank immediately for safety.

The transmission of the funds to UNITED ALLIANCE CREDIT UNION
ONLINE(UACU) was successfully
executed today and we just received a confirmation from the UNITED
ALLIANCE CREDIT UNION(UACU)
that the funds valued the sum of Two Million Nine Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars($2.9M)
was received by the Bank management, therefore we are officially
contacting you in this regard
by letting you know that your funds are presently at UNITED ALLIANCE
CREDIT UNION(UACU).

Your fund was securely entrusted to UNITED ALLIANCE CREDIT UNION BANK(UACU)
293 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA today under the special
supervision of Mr. Oxlade T. Gomez
an experienced UACU official who is to be conducting your payment
henceforth Via Online Banking. Therefore you are advised to contact
the Bank representative with the information outlined below;

UNITED ALLIANCE CREDIT UNION(UACU)
Contact Personnel: Mr. Oxlade T. Gomez
E-mail: support@ualliancecu.com

Furthermore identification code (K360BKJ) was issued by (UACU) management
which you are required to indicate by using it as the subject of your
email for verification or easy identification and the following
information are also required;

Your personal profile:

Profession---------
Full Names-----------
Age--------------------
Home/Office address----------
Current Phone number#-----------

Kindly reach out to the United Alliance Credit Union Bank Online
representative stated above to begin the process and access your
payment.
It is of utmost importance that you keep close to all instructions to
follow and to do so without delay.

Warmest regards,
Kristalina Georgieva

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