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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: "Mrs. Lois Ashante" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mrsloisashante@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:44:51 -0800
Subject: Your Unpaid And Un-Claimed Owed Debt From (UN)

Attention: Beneficiary,

I am Lois Ashante, the newly appointed director general in charge of approving & releasing all owed yet unpaid\UN-released foreign payments and also the
special adviser to the United-Nation fighting against the UN-necessary delays of beneficiaries yet unclaimed payment including yours which was recently
discovered this week that has not yet been paid to you by the present BRITISH GOVERNMENT after series of investigation conducted.

I am contacting you after discovering that your payment has been delayed UN-necessary due to one reason or another while auditing was going on this week.
the contract/Inheritance panel of the U.N, which just concluded its seating in London federal capital territory just released your (E-mail ID & Name) among the
currently approved beneficiaries who are suppose to receive their payment. This panel was primarily delegated to investigate and to genuinely manipulate all owed debts and claims as it has eaten deep into the economy of the Great Britain-London.

However, I wish to personally bring to your urgent notice, so that you will be aware that your yet unclaimed payment data's is still reflecting in our central
computer as unpaid and UN-claimed owed debt in my department where I work as the new appointed (U.N) lawyer in charge of approving & releasing all yet
unpaid debts recently recovered back by the (U.N) office in London.

Your payment deposit certificate is available and the only thing remaining now is to link you to the bank where your money is deposited in your own name. All
that the bank will require from you to allow you access to the funds is just your deposit certificate. I will not ask you to pay me any money before I release the
deposit certificate to you, because, that is the method the fraudsters and fake officials operates, neither will I ask you for percentage or part of the money as other
criminals has always done too. Our investigation has shown all that is going on between you and impostors who claims to be bank officials and federal
government of Nigeria officials.

I am communication with you from our agency, and I am writing you from the agencies official email address, not a public email address. Our Job here is
transparent and everything is done in proper filing and recording method. At this moment, I wish to use this medium of communication to inform you that for the time being the (U.N) has completely stopped further payment through
bank to bank transfer, ATM Card, Bank Draft or Check Payment due to numerous petitions received from the united states home-land security, the FBI, IMF and
other financial and security agencies to UK Government on wrong payment and diversion of innocent beneficiaries owed funds to a different account. Hence the
reason why everybody’s funds was deposited in a bank in their own name.

But before I proceed to give you your deposit certificate and link you to the paying bank, I need to know for sure if you are the true owner of this fund. I need an
accurate answer to the questions below:

1. What is your full names;
2. How much were you owed (your funds amount)
3. Copy of your I.D by fax or email
4. Mobile telephone number.


WARNING/ADVISE: Please note carefully that any money requested from you by anybody, office, banks or group of people from Africa/Nigeria or any money
sent by you to any office in Africa/Nigeria is at your OWN RISK, so stay away from any other office, person or group of people and face only the United-Nation
Appointed Approved Payment Disbursing High Commission Office here in London, and forward to us, any email you receive from them again per the matters of
your funds.

If the above information is different from what we have in our file, we would not link you to the paying bank and therefore you will not be paid.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Lois Ashante.

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