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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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Fraud email example:

From: gsmith@va.metrocast.net
Reply-To: unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:00:32 +0530
Subject: &%WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME UN COMPENSATION

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017 , USA
YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.

Greetings Beneficiary,

This is to bring to your notice that delegated from the UNITED NATIONS has
approve payment for 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of
Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you $1,500,000.00 USD
each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed
victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as
possible for the immediate payment of your $1,500,000.00 USD compensation
funds. We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended
Three days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.


Contact information:
Mr . CLARK CHARLES
Chief Protocol Officer , Dispatch Unit.
Email: (unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg)
As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your
present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to effect
the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. MOBILE NUMBER:
4. Fax Number:
5. Sex:
7. Age:
8. Nationality:
9.Country:
10.Marital Status:
11.E-mail id:

You are required to send your bank account details where you want your
compensation amount to be transferred to which we will provide to our pay
banks to proceed with your transfer of $1,500,000.00 USD Our paying banks
are (1) ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. (2) CAPITAL ONE.


Note our email is: unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg
.
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
unitednationsuncompensations@yahoo.com.sg

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