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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: "Mr.Jeffrey J. Herselius" <jamesmorgan9022@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mr.jeffreyherselius600@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:24:40 -0800
Subject:


Bank of America 3565 CaliforniaSt, San Francisco, CA 94118, United
States Bank of America ATM.

Attn: Online Beneficiary,

Your detailed 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 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 that 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 the United State and Northern America to enable the payment of your
overdue transaction that has been pending for the past several years.

I want you to clearly understand that I am here to serve you according to
the instructions 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 issued 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 the United
nation will be activated.

You have to send the sum of $110 usd dollars iTunes card, steam wallet card
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$15,500.000.0 United States
Dollars This is why it is important that we first of all receive the Bank
of America Personal Residential Online Account Activation fee in our bank,
which in turn would record and file the payment of $110 usd dollars iTunes
card and forward the information to our headquarters here in USA.

Then the funds would be received, in iTunes card, steam wallet card or
Google play card registered into the system and once it is sighted, then an
instruction would be issued to that effect and the documentation would be
formally presented to the Federal Reserve Bank just as described in my most
recent correspondence with you explaining.

Please, if you cannot afford to pay this US$110 iTunes card, steam wallet
card or Google play card don’t reply to my email; we don’t have time to beg
you to set up Bank of America Personal Residential Online under our
supervision. Once your bye the $110 usd dollars iTunes card and make sure
your send the Copy of the $110 usd dollars iTunes card here in Our Mail
Address Okay,

Thanks
Mr.Jeffrey J. Herselius
3565 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118, United States Bank of America
ATM

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