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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: <faxziz2020@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:26:51 -0600
Subject: ATTENTION:BENEFICIARY

United Nations Organization.
3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL
United Kingdom



Attention Beneficiary,


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 NATIONS. This email is to
all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED
NATIONS has agreed to compensate them with the sum of U.S $250,000.00 each and you
have to indicate how much you lost in the hands of scammers.

This includes every foreign contractors, Inheritance,Dating 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. We found your name in our list and that is why we
are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed.


You are advised to contact Mr Greg Anderson who is in charge of your payment
through our payment centre in the U.K as he is our representative in Europe.
Contact him immediately for more information on how to get your compensation of
U.S $250,000.00 payment from the United Nations.




Therefore, you should furnish him with the following pieces of information:


1.Your full names
2.Direct telephone number
3.Mailing address

Person to Contact: Mr. Greg Anderson
United Nations Payment Centre U.K.
Tel :+44 703 592 6276




Yours faithfully,
Ban Ki Moon.

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