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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: "Harold Wesley"<info@alice.it>
Date:
Subject:

Bank of America Higher Standards Home

100 N Tryon St STE 170 Charlotte, NC 28202 US

Financial Center Monday - Thursday:

9:00 am.-4:00 pm. Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday - Sunday: Closed

BANK OF AMERICA ONLINE ACCOUNT SETUP INSTRUCTION USD$37.500.000.00 DOLLARS

Attn: Online Beneficiary,

Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we have in our database Before we proceed to set up your Bank of America 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 email was from the United Nation Organization on unpaid payments from deposit 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 conducted 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 Nation Organization.Our bank stands out from all the presently distressed banks in United State and Northern America to enable the payment of your overdue transaction that has been pending for the past severa

I want you to clearly understand that, I am here to serve you according to the instruction from FBI, Homeland Securities of States and United Nation Organization in particular.Moreover, I am not here to play any kind of joke with you.The clearances from Federal Reserve Bank and US Treasury Department to enable your online Transfer go smoothly has been issue to our Bank.Meanwhile, you have to clearly understand that, before we can set up a new Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account for you here in our bank, the activation fee must be paid by you and it will reflect in our database and your original account which was instructed from United nation will be activated.You have to send the sum of $50 usd dollars itunes card to activate your Bank of America Personal Residential Online Account, this payment will be credited to your Online account before we can fully remit the amount value of US$37.500.000.00 United States Dollars This is why it is important that we first of all receive the Bank of Americ

Then the funds would be received, in turn registered into the system and once it is sighted, then an instruction would be issued out to that effect and the documentation would be formally presented to Federal Reserve Bank just as described in my most recent correspondence with you explaining.Please, if you can not afford to pay this US$50 iTunes card don’t reply to my email; we don’t have time to beg you to set up Federal Reserve Bank of America Personal Residential Online under our supervision. Once you buy the $50 card make sure you send the Copy of the iTunes card here on the email.

Thanks

Regards

Harold Wesley

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