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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: <dblunt@yahoo.cn>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:14:26 -0400
Subject: Your $6.3Million USD Is Ready For Pickup

INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT)
UNITED NATIONS (WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX027 (UNITED KINGDOM)




IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT


ATTN: sir/madam,

I am Mr Edward Lincoln United Nation Agent. This message is based on the meeting which the United Nation (UN), European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) held in London United Kingdom on 3rd of May 2012 regarding the expenses which you have made on your failed Transactions like Contract Funds, Bank Transfer, Lottery Fund Transfer and Inheritance Fund Transfer. According to the International Monetary Funds Agency (I.M.F), they discovered that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by some corrupt officials of the Banks And Legal Attorneys who are Trying to divert your money into their private bank accounts. We will like to use this opportunity to inform you that all this corrupt officials and attorney's has been arrested and their bank account has also been frozen, meanwhile your unpaid total sum of $6.3Million USD has been retrieved back from them and ready to be return back to you.

Note: You don't need to follow anymore instruction from any office, banks, courier companies again, because all old payment method has been cancelled and rescheduled to be paid through DIPLOMATIC FOUNDATION, although many unpaid beneficiaries are yet to be notify about this new development for 2012, but gradually everybody would be notified and get paid with immediate effect, you are receiving this email now because you are the next beneficiary to be paid on the payment list.

After thorough review on this matter, we noticed that the easiest and fastest way to get your $6.3Million USD release to you is by hiring a Professional Diplomatic Agent whom will deliver the $6.3Million USD to you in cash in your country, so we hereby urge you to contact the Diplomatic Agent that is in charge of your funds delivery to you on the below contact details.

CONTACT PERSON:------------( DIPLOMAT ALLEN BURG )

CONTACT EMAIL:-------------( dblunt@yahoo.cn )

CONTACT NUMBER:------------(+447031921939 )

Make sure you contact the Diplomatic Agent with the information required below to enable him to know the country and home address where to deliver the box that is containing your $6.3Million USD to you, and also take note, you must not disclosed the box content to the Diplomatic Agent while contacting him, because we don't want anymore delay to the delivery of the funds to you inside the box, as you can see, alot of officials has tried to divert your funds in the past, so we don't want the Diplomatic Agent to knows the box content to avoid him also trying to divert the box too with the funds therein.

1. YOUR FULL NAME...........................
2. CONTACT ADDRESS.............................
3. PHONE NUMBER & FAX NUMBER..............
4. YOUR OCCUPATION....................
5. COUNTRY:........................
6. AGE:...........................................................................
7. SEX:............................................................................
8. MARITAL STATUS: ................................................


It is very important that you contact the Diplomat Agent Immediately after reading this email. This is your CONSIGNMENT BOX REFERENCE NUMBER (2662.8999.900) make sure you contact the Diplomatic Agent with your box reference numbers and also the information required above to enable him to start the delivery process of the box to you immediately and don't forget, you must not disclosed the box content to him for your funds safety and quick delivery to you.

Yours Faithfully
Mr Edward Lincoln
United Nation Department.

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