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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. Nikhil Rathi" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <nikhil-rathi1@outlook.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 06:31:38 -0800
Subject: United States Dollars US$25,000,000.00

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
12 Endeavour Square
London E20 1JN

Dear Beneficiary,

This is from the office of the "Financial Conduct Authority" (FCA), a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom. The FCA regulates financial firms providing services to consumers and maintains the integrity of the financial markets in the United Kingdom. Though on the line of our services as the financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, we discovered some irregularities concerning your fund worth's of Twenty-Five Millions United States Dollars (US$25,000,000.00) which was trying to be siphon and diverted into another Bank Account in Japan by some group of people through the "China Construction Bank (London) Limited".

Therefore, in view of this, we are contacting you to verify the authentication of this transaction being masterminded by some group of people through the "China Construction Bank (London) Limited". We stopped this transaction depending on our final verification from you concerning this matter therefore you are advised to respond and get back to us immediately upon receiving this message.

Finally, note to reconfirm and forward to us the following details/information below, ( nikhil-rathi1@outlook.com )

Your Full Names:=============
Residential Address:=========
Contact Phone Number:========
Valid ID Card:===============

Your Faithfully,

Mr. Nikhil Rathi
Chief Executive Officer
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

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