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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: "Ban Ki-Moon" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <james34@mail.kz>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:47:44 -0700
Subject: DO CALL HIM NOW

RE: COMPENSATION OF US$1,700.000.00

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the past 3 months which ended yesterday with the secretary to the UNITED NATION. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$1.700.000.00 (One Million Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars Only) each and you have to indicate how much you have lost in the hand of scammers.

This includes every foreign contractors, Inheritance and Lottery payment that have not received their Lottery/Inheritance payment, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international Lottery payment that failed due to Government problems etc. Your email id is in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been approved for payment

You are advised to contact Mr. James Nello who is in charge of your compensation payment through our paying out let in Madrid Spain as he is our representative in contact him immediately for your compensation of US$1.700.000.00. This fund have been deposited in the paying bank in Spain

Person to Contact: Mr. James Nello
Email: james34@mail.kz or james34@inMail24.com
Tel: :+34-672-885-729

Hoping to hear from you as soon as you receive your compensation funds.

United Nations, Making the world a better place.

Regards,

Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary-General

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