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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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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.

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:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
  • "diplomatic delivery"
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • ",000,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
  • "diplomatic delivery" ("diplomats" who perform deliveries of cash or other valuables to you only exist in 419 scams)
  • "central bank of nigeria" (the name of a person or institution often appearing in 419 scams)
  • "abuja" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
  • "lagos" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • info.unitednationsendowment@googlemail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "mailoffice1244@terra.es" <mailoffice1244@terra.es>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:49:35 +0100 (MET)
Subject: SCAM VICTIM REMUNERATION.



ATTENTION SIR/MADAM,

OCEANIC INTERNATIONAL BANK/UNITED NATIONS 2006 SCAM VICTIM REMUNERATION.
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations To Central Bank to pay 150 scam victim $1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each.
You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1,000,000.00 remuneration funds.

On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last U.N. meeting held in Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meeting on the lose of funds by various individuals to the Nigerian scam artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to renumerate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Nigerian Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators $1,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking System in Nigeria, the payment are to be supervised by the United Nations'Officials and the Central Bank of Nigeria and the corresponding paying bank is OCEANIC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 36 left to be paid the remuneration of $1,000,000.00 each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.

Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your remuneration payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS or DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY. I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you. Alternatively, you can receive your money through the sub office of the European Monetary Fund in Madrid, Spain.

However, you have to send feedback through below email address.

Yours faithfully,
Sir Owerri Jonathann
info.unitednationsendowment@googlemail.com
Plot 15 Unesco Secretarait,
Ikoyi, Lagos





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