419 scam: "WORLD BANK AMBASSADOR (UK)." <info.unionbank.payment.office@gmail.com> REPLY NOW_______

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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:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.

Fraud email example:

From: "WORLD BANK AMBASSADOR (UK)." <info.unionbank.payment.office@gmail.com>
Reply-To: andrewfelton111@rediffmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:39:13 -0800
Subject: REPLY NOW________

Attention: Sir/Ma,

How are you doing today?

I hope you are in good health with your family. I write to bring to
your notice that an approval of fund release was submitted yesterday
(18/11/2022) by the UK Government to the Nigerian Debt Management
Office (DMO) to release all long awaited fund which originated from
Africa to its beneficiary, as a way to relief beneficiaries from COVID
19 crisis/damages. You are receiving this message because your name is
on the list of beneficiaries submitted sent to my desk whose funds are
yet to be paid after giving your best in the past to receive it. What
is your full name and address? If you are able to read this email, you
should respond back to this email very urgently for more details, as
my office was mandated to supervise the payment and make sure you
paid.

I will need your urgent response by sending the requested information
as we don't want any mistake in this transaction, as we want to be
very sure that we contacted the rightful (beneficiary) owner of this
email-ID to receive the fund before we can send the fund approval
certificate to you for your confidence for security reasons.

Thanks and regards,

Andrew J Felton (Ambassador)
Office of the World Bank, London
12th floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London,
SW1P 4QP.
Work Hour: 9AMâ€“5:30PM

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