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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: <un.org@ok.ms>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:42:51 +0200
Subject: Re: Good Day My Dear

Good Day My Dear,

After several attempt to reach you on phone, The United Nations Monitoring ,Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,an office responsible for resolving pending Contract/Inheritance/Lotto transfer owed to companies and individuals which have been delayed due to many abnormalities that had happened in the apex institutions, was setup by the
African Union in conjunction with the European Union, The United States Government and the World Bank for the sole purpose of resolveing pending transfer.I am sorry I have not email you, this is due to we lost everything in the process of reformanting our computer but fortunately my secretary found your email address for me.

I deemed it necessary and urgent to notify you finally about the outstanding settlement of your payment, the president committee on contractual matters has decided to pay this fund to you through our paying bank.

However after our due checking of your file and it was satisfactory approved for payment that is why you have to disengage from any body or impersonated officers who claim to be in position of your fund, thereby misleading and having the opportunity to extort money from you.

Contact Mrs.Susan Mark for your Revalidation payment of $1.200,000.00USD through this

e-mail:(mrs.susanmark@freemail.ru) with your bellow information

1,Your Full Name..........
2,Delivery address........
3,phone number............
4,email address...........
5,copy of your passport.................

Your advice to stop contact with any body in regard to any transfer originated from Africa both your local representatives and so here on-now and adhere to our advice to get your fund paid.

We have paid for the processing and delivery charges.the only money that you are going to pay is $85 usd only for re-activation of your payment before your money will reach you.

Accept our congratulations in advance.

Yours faithfully,

Ms. Rachel Davies
Officer-in-Charge, Administrative Service

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