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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: "City Exchange Finance" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <morgan.cityexchangesecurities@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:59:57 +0100
Subject: Payment Alert.

City Exchange Finance & Securities COMPENSATION UNIT, IN AFFILIATION WITH THE UNITED NATION.

ATTN: Sir/Madam

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 series of meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world and also have contract payments which have been delayed / held back by impostors, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate you all with the sum of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) each. This includes every foreign contractors that may have not have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems


Your name and email was in the list submitted by the International Monitoring unit
and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been
signed.

You are advised to contact Mr. Andrew Morgan of City Exchange Finance & Securities,
as he is our representative in The UK, contact him immediately for your Cheque/
International Bank Draft of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) This
funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose, so he will send it to you and you
can clear it in any bank of your choice.

Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your correct
mailing address where you want him to send the Draft to you.

Contact Mr. Andrew Morgan immediately for your Cheque:

Person to Contact Mr. Andrew Morgan

Email: morgan.cityexchangesecurities@gmail.com
Phone: +447024067819


Making the world a better place
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).
http://www.un.org/sg/

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