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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: "UNITED NATIONS" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <olawalemoun@live.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:55:40 -0400
Subject: Message from West Africa United National,

Message from West Africa United National,


This is to notify you that we have your funds amounting to USD$1,500,000.00 with us here in the UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION WEST AFRICA because your email is among the beneficiaries of the United Nations Compensation Commission payment program. Due to your late response to our email and this transaction, there is someone here who said he is from your country and he says he is the owner of the funds. He said he is ready to pay for the procurement of the legal documents which is $195 for the release of the funds to him, he said he is going to pay the $195 dollars. He has been held right away for verification purpose, for us to know if he is the real owner of this fund because he provided us with a different email address that does not match with this your email. Since the fund belongs to this your email address we have to write to confirm about this serious issue that is going now. We did not tell him that we were contacting the rightful email, so we want to know if
he is for real or not.


This meeting was first held on the 8th of April 2003. You can view this page for your perusal:


http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm
Assess Code:8911-89-QDR


You have to reply within the next 48hrs for security purpose so that your fund would not be transferred to another person. So you are to know what to do about this so that your fund would not be transferred or be claimed by another person.


I await your urgent response to this office immediately.


Mr. Olawale Marcus Ojo
UN Agent (WEST AFRICA UNITED NATIONS).
Tel: +234-808-185-9626
Fax: (234)(1) 2802282
http://www.un.org/

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