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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 <unsecoffice4@ofun.jp.tn>
Reply-To: <unitednationhqs@yandex.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:35:32 +0100
Subject: Your Fund Is Ready For Release

World Bank Assisted Program
Directorate Of International
Payment And Transfer.
Debt Reconciliation/Audit Unit
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017, U.S.A.

Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX028 United Nations.

Dear Beneficiary,

We are authorize by United Nations Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your Lottery Winning and Compensation payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria, Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, America, Canada, North America, and South America who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS and HSBC To pay 50 people from your country as a result of they Lottery Winning and Compensation as victim of Internet scam. The United Nations has decided to pay you Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the lucky person to be paid this amount, so get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment process of your Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00) Lottery/Compensation funds.

This email is to 50 selected lucky people of the countries that have been scammed or extorted money from because of their contract payment execution in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate all the Lottery Winners and scam victim with the sum of Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00) each. This includes every foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMMED.

Be clarify that this fund has been approved in your favor and duly signed by the United Nations Financial Department, United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMMED, and also note that your Fund will be release can either be release to you through the following method (Via Bank to Bank Wire Transfer, Via Automatic Teller Machine ATM MASTERCARD, Via Electronic On-Line Banking System, Via Bank Draft and Via Diplomatic Delivery Means) and the Chief Protocol Officer, in charge of the Fund Release Unit Rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu have been authorize to handle the release process of your fund per your chosen method you want to use to receive your Fund from the above listed means. You are hereby advised without delay to stop all contact going on between you and anybody on Internet over the claim of your Fund because you will end up at nothing with them as they have no Fund for you and you must understand that we are here to ensure that you receive your fund without any further problem, so follow our instruction and contact rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu for the claim of your Fund.

Be inform that a woman with the name Elizabeth Williams of 5.9 inches tall, with Long hair and white in color from the United States of America have earlier today contacted this office claiming to be from you, stating that you are dead but before your abrupt death you made her your representative and authorized her as your legal beneficiary to claim your fund valued Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00) only from this reputable commission and and she also stated that she is a member of your family, so here comes the big question, are you dead and did you sign any dead of assignment in favor of this woman, there by making her the current beneficiary with her following contact details before you pass on, please get back to us if you are alive and state to us if you authorize this woman to represent you for the claim of your fund to enable us know the next line of action to follow for the transfer/release of your fund.

Also be inform that the reason we welcome the woman application is because we have sent series of emails in this regards to you but you did not respond back to us and that makes us to think that her of you not been alive maybe true since you refuse replying to our emails, However, in the course of our routine secularization into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of your Fund is intact and very much available that is while we decide to contact you again before carrying her instruction. Note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your Fund Payment through the following method (Via Bank to Bank Wire Transfer, Via Automatic Teller Machine ATM MASTERCARD, Via Electronic On-Line Banking System, Via Bank Draft and Via Diplomatic Delivery Means) and Rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu Chief Protocol Officer have been handed over the responsibility to handle the release process of your fund to you, so you have to contact Rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu on his contact details as he is in charge of your Fund release process if you are still alive and not the one that authorize the woman to claim the Fund on your behalf, As he is our UNITED NATIONS departure representative in charge of release of Lottery Winning/Compensation Fund to Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, America, Canada, North America, and South America regions, contact him immediately for Fund valued at Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars (US$5,500,000.00. These Fund can be release to you through any of the following method (Via Bank to Bank Wire Transfer, Via Automatic Teller Machine ATM MASTERCARD, Via Electronic On-Line Banking System, Via Bank Draft and Via Diplomatic Delivery Means).


Contact information:

Rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu
Chief Protocol Officer, Fund Release Department.
Email: ( rev.fr.paultochukwu@gmail.com )
Direct Tel: +234-703-724-7108

Below is the Registration Information’s of your Fund and you are to provide this details to Rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu when contacting him as evidence of receiving email from us as a beneficiary to this compensation fund.

FUND AWARD REFERENCE CODE: UNAP 563EUS
REGISTERED TAG: UNZEFCB79268.
SECURITY CODE: SCUN/2015/90363/
TRANSACTION CODE 8563/TCUNEU/9563/56253/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE: CDCUN/EU673/IEDD/-09/15
DEPOSIT CERTIFICATE N0: 735642

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide a reconfirmation of your present details as below to the Officer to effect the change and Re-process your fund release to you.

Full Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
Occupation:
Identification Card/Driver's License:

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly we advise you to follow the instruction of Rev. Fr. Paul Tochukwu as we have assigned him to handle the process of the release of your Fund to you. Once you contact him, do follow up his instruction as he is the only person in charge of the release of your Fund to you without any further delay.

Yours Faithfully,

Secretary-General United Nations
Mr. Ban KI Moon
United State of America.

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