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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: "WELLS FARGO BANK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wfb@consultant.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:42:23 -0700
Subject: REF: - INSTRUCTION TO CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT WITH THE SUM OF (US$15M)


WELLS FARGO BANK
Address: 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20006, United States

Welcome to Wells Fargo Bank Operation Unit

ATTENTION BENEFICIARY

REF: - INSTRUCTION TO CREDIT YOUR ACCOUNT WITH THE SUM OF (US$15M)

Dear Valued Customer? This is the second time we are notifying you about this said fund. After due vetting and evaluation of your Inheritance file which The United States Department of the Treasury in conjunction with the U.S Homeland Security Investigations Department, Forwarded and contacted us to see to your immediate payment of the sum of US$15,000,000.00 from their Offshore Account with us.

We were meant to understand from our findings that you have been going through hard ways by paying a lot of charges to see to the release of your fund (US$15,000,000.00), which has been delayed. Which has been the handiwork of some miscreant elements from Nigeria We advice that you stop further communication with any correspondence from Nigeria as you have met up with the whole requirements, your representatives in Nigeria will tell you to still go ahead with them but on your own risk.

The only thing required from you is to obtain Non-Resident Clearance Form/Receipt and U.s Transfer Permits Clearance Form/Receipt which we are not asking you to pay the fee to us here as the U.S Government have paid us for handling/processing of your payment with other customers. We will help you to see that you obtain the Non-Residential Clearance form so that our bank will affect immediate transfer of your Inheritance fund sum of (US$15,000,000.00) into your designated bank account. If you follow up our directives, your fund will reflect in your account within five Bank working days from the day you obtain your Non-Residential Clearance form. Please note that the requested U.s Transfer Permits Clearance Document is urgently needed for the facilitation of the transfer of US$15,000,000.00 into your designated bank account.

Do not go through anybody again if it is not our agent (Attorney Barbara Bowden) for your Non-Resident Clearance Form/Receipt and U.s Transfer Permits Clearance Form/Receipt if you really want your fund to be wire into your designated Bank Account urgently without any delay and the contact details Listed bellow, Contact her with your info bellow

Contact Name: Attorney Barbara Bowden, Law Offices Of Barbara Bowden
Contact Email: AttorneyBBowden@qualityservice.com
+1 270 8833667


1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. Phone Number:
4. Occupation:
5. Sex:
6. Age:
7. Nationality:
8. Present Country:
9. Next Kin: :
10.International passport:

please treat this matter as extremely urgent and respond back as soon as possible,

contact her if you really want your fund to be wire into your designated Bank Account urgently without any delay, As soon as we
receive this (U.s Transfer Permits Clearance Form/Receipt) from her we shall commence with the crediting/Remittance exercise.

Thanks
Yours sincerely,
Mr.Charles W. Scharf
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
Of Wells Fargo Bank.

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