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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: union bank <unionbnk8080@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:43:25 +0100
Subject: COMPENSATION AND ACCRUED INTEREST FUND DISBURSEMENT ; FINAL NOTICE;
RELEASE OF PAYMENT OF $5.1M ,INHERITANCE ACCRUED INTEREST/COMPENSATION
PAYMENT FUND

FROM THE DESK OF MR EMEKA EMUWA .
Director, Foreign Operations {UNION BANK PLC}
Our Ref: UBN/FCU/CBX/021/15/19/2023

DATE; 15/ 03/2023


Good Morning Sir,

RE: YOUR INHERITANCE ACCRUED INTEREST /COMPENSATION PAYMENT ADVICE VALUED
$5.1M ,

I AM MR EMEKA EMUWA, The Director, foreign operations and head of payment
verification unit of Union Bank PLC, Lagos Nigeria, in line with the
instruction from the presidency that your accrued interest should be paid
to you immediately instead of the principal sum, which has been the case
before now.

Some time ago, your contract / inheritance sum was brought to our bank by
the central bank of Nigeria (CBN), after some period of time; the money was
taken back to the Federal Government Treasury. This was done because of the
autocracy from the CBN where they use beneficiary money to make interest
from deposits with local banks for a short period of
time. This has frustrated so many fund beneficiaries and also caused
several delays from getting foreign beneficiaries paid their due sum.

But with the intervention of the Presidency giving the Union Bank of
Nigeria the unanimous right to handle all foreign payments under the
supervision of the CBN. As the case maybe, the CBN has declared the sum of
US$5.1M as your accrued interest plus $2M AS COMPENSATION and also
approved this sum to be paid to you without any further delay. It
is my duty to verify your information and also ensure that the said amount
is immediately allocated for payment.

NB: KINDLY GET BACK TO ME WITH YOUR FULL BANKING DETAILS FOR THE TRANSFER
OF YOUR FUNDS, INCLUDING YOUR ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, OCCUPATION, AGE
AND COPY OF YOUR IDENTIFICATION.

we have allocated to you new International Payment Voucher Number:
IMF/FRBWDC/US-BG-93WB82UN567-G, Approval Number: 7402-2022,Certificate of
Merit Number: 781 and Release Code Number: 0295 and you must quote
any of these Identification Numbers before us for proper identification.
Note also that your file is currently in my office and
from the records I have in my file, you have been cleared to receive the
sum of US$5.1M only.

Yours Faithfully,

MR EMEKA EMUWA.
Director, Foreign Operations {UNION BANK PLC}

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