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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: <daudatroure-unitednations1@consultant.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:43:03 +0200
Subject: REF: WB/DEAN/UN/EX125/0022/12.

DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, USA.
 
OUR REF: WB/DEAN/UN/XX125/0011/12.                              
***************************************************
 
Greetings,
 
I am Mr. Dauda Troure, the Secretary; United Nations Debt Reconcilaition Representative. We beg your attention on this very important matter which requires your urgent attention.
 
We were nominated as an AD-HOC Committee by the United Nations Assembly to investigate the current menace of Scam being perpetuated in most of the African Countries. After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending payment have been withheld by imposters for a very long period of time, claiming to be who they are not, But with the help of FBI and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria, we have been able to trace them. Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot of your personal earned money just to conclude the successful transfer of your funds to your Nominated Bank Account by obtaining transfer documents as requested by the impostors, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail.
 
With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we traced your information from the Internet as one of the Victims of this illicit act. I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to carry out with the fund transfer exercise for transparency, and most especially to avoid re-occurrence of the delay in transferring your funds and also terminate the unnecessary demand for documents. In this regards, we came to an agreed conclusion as all head of organizations involved was duly represented.
 
Here is our conclusion; that Your Fund (Part Payment) worth $3,500,000.00 USD (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) will be release to you under my strict Supervision in the Central Bank of Nigeria, since it is the APEX Bank also known as the Government Bank here in Nigeria. So first thing first i will like you to get back to me immediately with the below information's as stated below
 
 
 
FULL NAME:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
AGE/DATE OF BIRTH:
CELL/PHONE NUMBER:
NEXT OF KIN:
 
Note: You are to forward any email(s) received from those ''Scammers'' to my email address so we can use such emails as evidence against them in the International Court, and eradicate them from cheating innocent people.
 
We hope to hear from you in due course.
 
Regards,
Mr. Dauda Troure
Secretary, Debt Reconciliation Representative,
United Nations. Nigeria.
email: daudatroure-unitednations@consultant.com

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