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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: "Mr. António Guterres" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <rev.fridayditmer2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 19:29:21 -0700
Subject: Did You Authorize Your Payment?

INTERNATIONAL  FUNDS TRANSFER / AUDIT UNIT UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION.
(World Bank Assisted Program) Directorate of International Payment and,
Transfers UN Plaza,DC2-2060,Abuja Federal Capital Development Authority (F.C.T)
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX028 United Nations Nigeria.
 
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/Inheritance payment/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.
 
 
Be advice that we are mandated by the UNITED NATIONS and HSBC To pay 50 people from your country as a result of they Lottery Winning//Inheritance payment/Compensation as
victim of Internet scam. The United Nations and HSBC has agreed 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.
 
 
Note that this email is to 50 selected lucky people of the countries that have been scammed or extorted money from because of their Lottery Winning//Inheritance payment/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 is approve for release 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, Via Diplomatic Delivery Means and Via Visiting Any Of Our Payment Center/Office Location For The Claim Of
Your Fund in Person As We Have Different Payment Centers All Around The World) and the Chief Protocol Officer in charge of the Fund Release Unit Rev. Fr. Ditmer Eduart 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. Ditmer Eduart for the claim of your Fund.
 
 
Also 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 Ten
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? thereby making her the current beneficiary to your fund with her following contact details before
you pass on, please get back to us if you are still alive and state to us if you authorize this woman to represent you for the claim of your fund or not, to enable us know the next line of action to
follow for the transfer/release of your fund.
 
Rev. Friday. Ditmer Eduart
Chief Protocol Officer, Fund Release Department.
Email: ( reve.fridayditmer1@gmail.com  )
Direct Tel: (+234-9025805618)
 
Below is the Registration Information’s of your Fund and you are to provide this details to Rev. Fr. Ditmer Eduart  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 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.
 
 
Your Full name & Address....................................
Contact Phone Number /  Fax Number............................
Current Occupation..............................
Marital Status..............................
Sex................................... 
Age........................
Scan copy of your Working ID/ Int'l Passport.............................
 
 
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. Ditmer Eduart 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,
Mr. Antonio Guterres
Secretary-General United Nations.

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