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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: "Mr. Thomas Bradley" <information@atm.com>
Reply-To: mrthomasbradley01@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:39:07 -0200
Subject: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE



UNITED NATIONS OFFICE
FOR THE COORDINATION OF
HUMANITARIAN AFFAIR.

Our Ref: FGN/SNT/RAL
Your Ref: SNT/ATM/822

Dear Esteemed Beneficiary,

Inline with the United Nations millennium development goal to
eradicate poverty and hunger by the year 2015 i am directed to
inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is
completed, Therefore we are happy to inform you that arrangements
have been concluded to effect your payment as soon as possible in
our bid for transparency.

You have been granted the sum of $500,000.00 USD in the United
Nation Development Program UNDP world Aid/support promo, for your
Personal, community and education development and do note that at
least 40% (Percent) of these total fund must be use for such purpose.

The United Nations collects all the email addresses of persons that
are active online among the millions that subscribed to the Internet
and only five persons every Year are selected as our Beneficiaries
through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.

On that note we congratulate you for being one of the beneficiaries.

To file for your claim, you are requested to contact the events
Manager/Claims Department,send your winning Identification Numbers
and the following information.

These are your identification numbers:

Reff number: UNDP/HUM/003/2011
Batch number: UNHM/UK/9768/789
Full Name:
Contact Address:
Phone Number:
Age:
Sex:
Occupation:
Country:

You are advised to send your details below via his e-mail address :

EMAIL: mrthomas_bradley@yahoo.com.hk


Thank you and accept my hearty Congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Thomas Bradley
Under-Secretary-General:
Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

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