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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: Western Union Porto Novo <ogwuefi1@gmail.com>
Reply-To: officeservice302@aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:04:51 +0100
Subject: Chair of the Board of Governors of Bank of America United States BOA

Chair of the Board of Governors of
Bank of America United States BOA
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America
Address:100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255.


Dear Fund Beneficiary:

We hereby bring to your notice that we discussed and arrived to a
better conclusion that we can no longer send the total Seven Million
Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars $7.8M USD to you via
Western Union Or ATM CARD, Therefore we decided to send it to you
through the means of Online Bank Transfer, for Security reasons,
meanwhile you are required to follow the online process as to enable
you transfer the whole $7.8M USD into your direct bank transfer.

You have to reconfirm the following information to enable transfer the
whole fund worth $7,800,000.00 USD to your account .


First Name :
Last Name:
State of Origiin
Nationality:
Social Security:
Passport Number:
National ID Card No.:
Phone:
Deposit Date:
Marital Status:
Gender: MALE
Date of Birth:
Residential Address:

City:
State:
Country:
ZIP / Postal Code:
Office Address:

E-mail:
Account Name:
Account Number:
Bank Name:
City:
State:
Country:
Zip / Postal Code:


Chair of the Board of Governors of
the Bank of America System
Mr Brian T Moynihan's
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America
Address:100 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255.

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