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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: =?UTF-8?Q?=C2=AE_World_Bank_Group?= <leedsj68@gmail.com>
Reply-To: info.aibc.remotecomputer@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:51:09 -0800
Subject: Payment Alert/ New Ref: WBG/ICR/ECD/CAD/223344/LN-22


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*WORLD BANK ECONOMIC COUNCIL/EXTERNAL AUDITORS*
*Currently Sitting At: THE WORLD BANK LONDON OFFICE MILBANK TOWER*
*INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT RECONCILIATION OFFICE.*
*12th FLOOR, 21-24, MILBANK*
*LONDON SW1P 4QP *
*ENGLAND*



*New Ref: WBG/ICR/ECD/CAD/223344/LN-22Dear * * BENEFICIARY,*

*My name is **Mr. Justice R. JOHANS the **New PayMaster-Generale: World
Bank Representativehere in London, United Kingdom.* *Upon resumption, I
found your Payment File unattended to and seemed abandoned for a long time
as no payment has been made to it lately.*

*It became important therefore, to bring to your knowledge that in lieu
to **our recent consultation with the global financial players namely the
IMF, World Bank Group, Paris and London Clubs respectively to review all
pending debts owed to creditor and foster a way to redeem and cushion to
ease the adverse economic effect by the dreadful Coronavirus Covid 19 on
these creditors of which you are one of them, on this premise therefore,
the sum of $19,900,000.00USD has been allocated for each creditor which
forms part of outstanding funds and **your payment file in this regard has
been enlisted among other files approved to be paid via our one of our
Settlement Banks in the USA or Europe.*

*It will be important that we let you know that your fund has been moved
and deposited in an escrowed account with one of the above-mentioned paying
banks for immediate release and remittance to you upon their verification
and revalidations.*

*Finally, upon receipt of your confirmation of readiness to received the
fund with reconfirmation of your data and receiving account details through
which you prefer to receive the funds, we shall forward to you the contact
details of nominated paying bank whereinat you fund will be released for
you to contact them to confirm that you are the real beneficiary of the
fund for proper verification and revalidation and possible release of the
fund to you via Swift Transfer without further delay.*

*I shall wait for your quick response with the above required
reconfirmations along with copies of your International Passport or
Driver's License for us to appropriate the necessary Credit Instruction in
your favour and transmit the same to the appropriate to their immediate
action A N D for effective communication, in reply let us have your direct
and whatsapps numbers.*

*Thanks.*

*Yours Faithfully,*




*Mr. Justice R. JOHANSNew PayMaster-Generale: World Bank
RepresentativeWORLD BANK ECONOMIC COUNCIL / EXTERNAL AUDITORSUK.*

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