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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: ALFRED MARK <auwalubab@gmail.com>
Reply-To: securedmortgagebank001@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:53:52 +0100
Subject: Your Attention is needed

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SCMBK® Mortgage Bank

Greetings,

Your details information will be received and confirmed with
what we have in our database before we proceed to set up your Secured
Mortgage Bank Personal Residential Online Account, we want to bring to your
notice the simple procedure to achieve this aim with our bank under my
supervision. First and foremost the origin of funds has previously advised
in my initial e-mail which was from the United Nations Organization on unpaid
charges from deposited funds from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

Your name and contact information was retrieved from the short-listed data
on the file of the United Nation Organization. If you try to recollect,
you would remember conducting some businesses in either of the mentioned
three tier regions (Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe), and the purpose of
selection was randomly made by the United Nations Organization. Our bank
stands out from all the presently distressed banks in United States, Northern
America and The United Kingdom to enable the payment of your overdue
transaction
that has been pending for the past several years to be released.

Once your details are confirmed then an instruction would be issued out
to that effect and the documentation on your $15,000,000 would be formally
presented to Secured Mortgage Bank just as described in my most recent
correspondence with you. The clearances from Secured Mortgage Bank and
US Treasury
Department to enable your online Transfer to go smoothly have been
issued to our Bank.

These details below are needed from you for confirmation and accuracy.

Your Full name :
Your home address :
Your occupation :
Your phone number :
Photo of any ID card You Have :

Contact E-Mail Address; securedmortgagebank001@gmail.com
Contact Phone Number; +1 775 986-5267

Awaiting your soonest response.

Best regard,
Mr. Alfred Mark.
Manager SCMBK® Mortgage Bank

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