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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: "peter dona" <peter_dona3@ig.com.br>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:40:17 +0100
Subject: **UNO/WBF LM-05-371**


*UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
Office of The Director Special duties.
Cotonou, Republic of Benin
Email: **peter_dona777@live.fr* <peter_dona777@live.fr>*
Special duties reference

**UNO/WBF LM-05-371**
**ORDERING CONTRACTOR:
UNO/WBF ? SG
DIPLOMATIC BOX 55KG

To the Beneficiary

The World Bank Group, Fact Finding & Special Duties office In
conjunction with the United Nations Organization, has received part of
your pending payment with reference number (LM-05-371) amounting to
(Ten Million United State Dollars) out of your contractual/inheritance
funds from our ordering contractor Bank quoting reference to UNO/WBF
LM-05-371, the said payment is been arranged in a Security-proof trunk
box weighing 75kg padded with synthetic nylon. According to
information gathered from the bank's security computer we were*

*notified that you have waited for so long to receive this payment
without success, we also confirmed that you have not met all statutory
requirements in respect of your pending payment. You are therefore
advised to contact our Payment Clearance Department to obtain
necessary information to the Security courier service company that is
specialized in sending diplomatic materials and information from one
country to another, which also has diplomatic immunity to carry
consignment / trunk (Box) such as this.

This office has met with this Security courier service and concluded
shipping arrangement with them, therefore shipment will commence as
soon as we have your go ahead order, the diplomat who will be bringing
in this Consignment trunk (Box) to you is an expert and has been in
this line of work for so many years now, so you have notting to worry
about. After all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate
(Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to a charity*

*organization we designate to you as soon as you receive your
inheritance fund. To this effect, in your response you should send to
us a promissory note promissing to donate the stated amount and also
with your address where you will like the consignment trunk Box to be
delivered to.

Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if
found out that we are using this media to help you. Therefore you are
advised not to inform anyone about this until you received your
consignment box. The above requirement qualifies you for final
remittance process of the received sum.

The below information would be needed for proper filing and to enable
safe delivery.

Full Name
Address
Occupation
Nationality
Mobile/phone number
Fax
Age
Sex

Please confirm message granted with "GO AHEAD ORDER" on mail:
**peter_dona777@live.fr* <peter_dona777@live.fr>* Congratulations.

Yours Faithfully
Rev. Fr peter dona
Director, Special Duties UNO/WBF.*

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