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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: FROM PEKAO BANK OF POLAND PLC <bendajoyce57@gmail.com>
Reply-To: financialpaycenterservice@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:37:18 -0800
Subject: FROM PEKAO BANK OF POLAND PLC

FROM PEKAO BANK OF POLAND PLC
Headquarters: 674-08 Grzybowska St,
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, 00-950 Poland
Phone Number: +(48 22) 692 55 04
Financial Center Services Activities
Monday: 9:00 am.-4:00 pm.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday- Sunday: Closed
BANK PEKAO OF POLAND ONLINE ACCOUNT SETUP INSTRUCTION USD$35,500,000.00 DOLLARS

Kindly Reply For Your Online Payment Sir/Madam,

Your details information has been received and confirmed with what we
have in our database Before we proceed to set up your 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 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 legal by the United Nation
Organization. Our bank stands out from all the presently distressed banks
in America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa to enable the payment of
your overdue transaction that has been pending for the past several years
released.

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 the USA 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 anew
Bank 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 $100 usd dollars Steam Wallet or Google Play
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$35,500,000.00 United States Dollars This is why it
is important that we first of all receive the Bank Personal Residential Online
Account Activation fee in our bank, which in turn would record and file the
payment of $100 usd dollars i tunes card and forward the information to our
Head Quarters here in USA.

The funds would be received, in Steam Wallet Or Google Play) 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 $100 Steam Wallet Google Play)
don’t reply to my e-mail; we don’t have time to beg you to set up Bank of
Personal Residential Online under our supervision. Go and buy a single $100
of the Steam Wallet or Google Play card and send.

Thanks

Regards
Mr. William Norbert
In Charge Of Financial Official Payment Center Services
financialpaycenterservice@gmail.com
Or pekaobankofpolandplc@poland.com}

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