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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: "richards mark" <markrich0013@e-mail.ua>
Reply-To: markrichards2007207@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:13:04 +0100
Subject: ATTENTION:RE-CHANGE OF ACCOUNT.


(UNITED NATIONS WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)

DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS B PLAZA 20-10017 WASU ABUJA, NIGERIA

WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT

Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027

ATTENTION:RE-CHANGE OF ACCOUNT.

This is in regard to outstanding paying,I am Mr.Mark Richards; the newly
appointed Director United Nations; Legal Affairs,Security and
Investigation,The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Chief
YAR`ADUA) and his Decision Making Body, The Excutive Arms of the government,
has directed me to come down to Nigeria to Investigate your fund and to make
sure that we approve all outstanding debts owned to Foreign beneficiaries by
the goverment of Nigeria in this 2 quarter of this fiscal year 2008.

This decision was taken based on the abnormalise and inability of the BANKS
in Nigeria to Release your fund into your bank account; Whereby it was
discovered that some Directors in Central bank of NIGERIA being the Federal
Government of Nigeria were diverting foreign beneficiaries payment to
another account of their choice overseas. In view of
this,during our investigation i found out that; an account was
submitted&nbsp; to divert your fund to a Germany account.

Below is the account submitted&nbsp; and I want you to confirm if you are
aware of the new development because we are about effecting payment to the
account stated bellow today.


Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA
Bank: FRANKFURTER BANK
A/C No.: 367840545
Code: 50050201

Finally, be informed that a payment instruction has been issued and
forwarded to the Treasury Department of the Federal Goverment Of Nigeria in
favour of you and your company for immediate release of your; fund to the
account above without any further prejudice.But there is no way we can
approve the fund to your account without you confirmint if you have changed
your account for your fund to be transfer to the


Beneficiary: CERSTIN WENGER SHENOUDA BANK ACCOUNT IN GERMANY.

Contact me immediately for further clarification. to know if you have giving
instruction to tranfer your fund to the above account today.


On behalf of the entire management of United Nations, we are congratulating
you in advance and if you fail to contact this office on or before 24hrs
from now then we will now wire the fund to the German account.


Thanks for your co-operation.

waiting for your urgent response
Yours faithfully
Mr.Mark Richards
Un Office Of Legal Affairs
(Security and Investigation)

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