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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: "fund initiative" <uk_fdinitiative01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: snonrilaelectricalco@techie.com
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:55:05 +0000
Subject: RESULTS NOTIFICATION FROM FUND INITIATIVE UK

UNIVERSAL FUND INITIATIVE.
{FUND INVESTIGATION UNIT}
306 RIMFORD ROAD,
LONDON E7 8AA.UNITED KINGDOM
EMAIL:unifdintia@london.com


Sir/Madam

Universal Fund Initiative is an international independent fund management
outfit recorgnized by the World bank and International Moneytary Fund(IMF)to
resolve major financial obligations of nations who have subscribed to it's
Multilateral Agreement Bond (MAB) and to suggest how best dormant funds
could be utilized in each particular year.

In the course of our duty,we have found large sums of unclaimed dividends
amounting to several millions of pounds in various countries of the world.
Our effort to locate the investors of these unclaimed equity and dividends
have proved
unsuccesfull,largely due to the fact that most of the investors had died not
knowing the worth of their investments and not mentioning them to their
folks.

We therefore suggested and received the approval of the World bank to
invest these funds in categorized countries for charity.

To achieve this,we sought the assistance of internet marketing firms who
advertised and obtained for us email subscriptions of individuals who would
like to benefit from this charity disbursement for the purpose of setting
up charitable organizations.
These email addresses were used for our recent draw which is our 4th draw
since the year of our Lord,2003.

You are being contacted because your email address drew one of the winning
Numbers marked FIU11400307 for the allotment of 3Million British pounds
Sterling.
For us to pay you this money,we must be able to certify the following;
1.That you are honest,responsible and dedicated.
2.That you do not have any history of crime.
3.You must be able to spare 2-3 hours daily for charity.

Note that we do not monitor the operations of successful allotees in the
discharge of their charity works as we have so many of these organizations
in various countries of this world.You must therefore see this as a solemn
call to serve humanity and in particular the less priviledged citizens
of your country.
Your allotment of 3Million pounds is payable to you either through cashier's
cheque , International swift transfer or Diplomatic Dilvery services .
For further inquiries,get back to us through the above email address .
To claim your winning contact us on
:claims_universalfundintiative@yahoo.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Roselyn Pembroke
Fund Investigation Unit

NB;Your email was forwarded to us by www.monster.co.uk on our request

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