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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: "Roland Desmond." (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:36:24 -0700
Subject: UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION OFFICE

UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION OFFICE

1.United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA. Tel: +1-5183289165

*Compensation Benefit*

Attention Respected Beneficiary,

The International Anti Fraud Agency working in partnership with the UNITED NATIONS and several Countries with head office in USA to fight against Internet fraud/fraudulent individuals that cheats people all over the world.

With the cooperation of several victims of fraud, we have been able to recover over Fifty million United State Dollar ($50,000.000:00) from a chain of fraudulent individual all over the word.

Belonging to victims of fraud including you, if you have lost your money to fraudulent individuals relating to any of the following online internet scam, Email lottery Cheats Package delivery/consignment delivery scam, SMS lottery scam, Black money Washing Scam, Employment scam and Visa scam.

The sum of Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar ($500,000:00 usd) has been allocated to you as a victim of fraud by the United Nations compensation office.

If you have been a victim of any of the above mentioned Internet fraud,

Kindly contact the United Nations compensation office below to claim your compensation benefit to enable you recovers your funds as awarded to you in this notification email.

You will be duly advised to provide required claims details for the approval of your benefits.

Contact us Via the Compensation officer in charge of compensation award payment with the below contact details.

Diplomat Walter Carrington

United Nations Compensation Office

Anti Fraud Compensation Department

1 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, United States

Email: compensationoffice@unitednations.com.au.ms

Yours Sincerely,

Executive Officer

Roland Desmond.

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