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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: "UNITED NATIONS" <info@uno.org>
Reply-To: paymentinstalment83@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:43:12 -0400
Subject: YOUR PAYMENT BY INSTALMENT

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
UNITED NATIONS FACT FINDING AND APPROVAL OF FOREIGN DEBT PAYMENT

(IMF /WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-ANEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027
 
Attention: Beneficiary,
 

Having understood your unstable situation, we in united Nations begged the Bank to accept payment by installment on your behalf, to enable our beneficiaries receive their payment that we may reconcile with all the foreign countries of the world. We understood your plight as someone who has suffered a lot to get this fund into your private account.

 

Write the Bank and request that you want your fund to be transferred to your account by installments payment, so that once the first payments enters into your account you can then use money from there to facilitate the transfer of the rest, once the first installments enters into your account that will equally give you another opportunity to do a test-transfer and withdrawal from your account to master Wells Fargo Bank Online transfer procedure.
 
Contact person: Mr John Stumpf
 Congratulations!    

Suggestions for account reactivation:

 

If 50% of $600 is equal to = $300

By calculations: if $600 can handle US$10M

$300 can also comfortably transfer the sum of US$5M

 

Once the US$5M is successfully transfer into your account, you can withdraw money from there to handle the transfer of the rest US$5M.

 

NOTE: Write the Bank to tell them how much you have at hands so that the Bank can calculate to tell how much you may receive as first payments-by-installments,  Do not be shy to indicate the amount you have at hands (no proper-amount is so small to trigger installments-payment base on our discussion with the Bank) so that the first payment will move to your account for you to confirm the existence of the fund before your proceed for the balance.

 

MR. BAN KI-MOON
(UN) SECRETARY GENERAL

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