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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: "EuropeanUnion FundMonitoringUnit." <bia-tgo@satellite-email.com>
Reply-To: olivierfigah@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:59:57 +0100
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary.

Attn: Beneficiary.

My name is .Olivier Figah. from the European Union monitoring team. I
write to bring to your notice that the EU has approved and mandated to pay
150 Americans, 20 Asian and 14 Europeans scam victims $2,500,000.00 USD
(Two Million five hundred thousand Dollars Only) each. You are listed and
approved for this payment as one of the beneficiaries to be paid this
amount as compensation.

As a result of this laudable recommendations, it is imperative to bring to
your notice that during the last U.N. meetings held at London, England, it
was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose
of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in
syndicates all over the world today. The EU has ordered the payment of
$2,500,000.00 USD each to the affected victims in pursuance with the U.N.
recommendations.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been
paid, 60% of the victims are from the United States, while about 40% are
from other parts of the world. We still have more than 30% left to be paid
the compensations of $2,500,000.00 USD each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested
in Baghdad , Iraq as one of their victims of the operations , you are
hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him or any
other person for any reason what so ever as the European Union anti-scam
term have combined effort with the United Nation Anti-crime commission to
alleviate the plight of these victims as well as redeeming the image of
EU. The U.S. secret service is already on trace of the criminals. Other
victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well
for scrutiny and possible consideration.

Many Banks, Universal firms, Companies and individuals have been in
bankruptcy today due to the activities of these hoodlums. However, a
thorough investigation have revealed that these people have dropped over
500,000 victims across the world, after collecting their money falsely,
many as a result of this have committed suicide, while others are now
living in abject poverty.

As regards these ongoing developmental strive, we have over 600 suspects
at hand, 135 in prisons. While many are awaiting trial, we are still in
search of others, who think they are wise, and hope that you will assist
by giving any vital information that could lead to the apprehension of
these impostors.

Having sourced for the deep details of this money, we have completed the
file payment approval with the European union and have finally forwarded
the payment approval to the world bank to assign a bank in your country
that will handle the payment of your compensation to you directly.The
world bank report later got to us that since the payment have delayed for
more than two years,the office of the International monitory Fund will
have to grant you what is called payment welcome note (PWN) which must
come from the IMF Sweden office.According to the world bank, the payment
welcome note is the only document that will authorize any approved bank in
your country to release of your 2.5 million dollars to you and the
document cost is $350 dollars according to the report from world bank.

The payment details will be completed by the world bank as indicated and
it will take just three days after register to complete/paid to you.


BELOW IS THE DETAILS REQUIRED .

1.YOUR FULL NAME/ADDRESS
2.ANY VALID IDENTITY
3.PAYMENT DETAILS OF THE $950 DOLLARS WITH THE MTCN IN THE NAME OF,Judith
David, ADDRESS,BJARNSTIGEN 85,17071 STOCKHOLM LONDON UNITED KINGDOM AS THE
RECEIVER.
4.YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS WHERE THE PAYMENT WILL BE PROCESSED TO.
5.FULL NAME OF NEXT OF KIN AND CURRENT ADDRESS.

We require your attention as urgently as possible to further furnish world
bank with the details above to engage the services . lastly, we urge you
to bear with us for delaying the processes this far,it was due to the
means to secure the best transfer mode since we never wanted to delay the
payment after approval,that was why we involved the world bank to handle
the payment and order a bank in your country,probably your state that will
complete the payment to you where you will not be stressed up any more in
receiving your long waited funds.

Thanks.


Mr.Olivier Figah.
International Special Agent
European union Fund Monitoring Unit.

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