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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: "un.trustfund03@yahoo.com.hk" <un.trustfund03@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:22:22 -0700
Subject: (UNO-154/4456/011)


United Nations Trust Fund
Switzerland Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland.

Congratulations Beneficiary, Your email has been selected by the United
Nations(UN) for a cash grant award of Six Hundred And Fifty Thousand Five
hundred United States Dollars,($650,500.00usd)for this year 2009 Grant
Award.Your email address was selected during our random email balloting for
the cash grant and if you received this notification,it means that you are a
lucky beneficiary of ourcash grant award.

The united nations authorities has decided to give this award to 15
beneficiaries from all over the world to help fascilitate and improve the
standard of living to the Commission,on the Limits of the strong Continental
Shelf for developing States, in particular the least developed countries and
small island developing States,and compliance with article 76 of the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

This grant is been aided by the United Nations development programme and the
united nations trust funds for human security.Your cash grant pin number is
(UNO-154/4456/011) You are kindly obliged to contact our corresponding UN
Payment office (United Nations Trust Funds ) in United Kingdom and they will
give details on how your funds would be remitted to you.Do contact our
payment office immediately with the informations below.Your grant numbers
fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact the event
manager/Claims Department, send your winning identification numbers and fill
the verification form below,to enable him verify your claims.

1.FULL NAMES OF DONATION BENEFICIARY:..................
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:.....
3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:...............
4.WINNING EMAIL:...............................................
5.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:...................................
6.NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:....................
7.SEX:................................................
8.OCCUPATION:..........................................
9.MARITAL STATUS:......................................
10.COUNTRY:............................................
11NATIONALITY:.........................................

Do contact our payment office immediately with the informations below.
******************************************************************************

Payment Officer: Dr.Packer Estrada
Phone Number: + 447 0240 70124
Email: un.trustfund09@yahoo.com.hk
******************************************************************************


Regards,
Mr Ban Ki-moon.
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL.

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