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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/European Union Human Development Programme" <splekawica_ftp@splekawica.iap.pl>
Reply-To: unitednationseuropeanunion09@live.com
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:04:37 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: United Nations/European Union Donation Grant Award




United Nations/European Union Human Development Programme
Department of Humanitarian Affairs
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
http://hdr.undp.org/en/

Congratulations Beneficiary

Your email has been selected by the UNITED NATIONS(UN) and the EUROPEAN
UNION (EU) for a cash grant award of Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain
Pounds,(£500,000.00 GBP) for this year 2009 award.Your email address was
selected during our random email balloting for the donation grant and if
you receive this notification,it means that you are a lucky beneficiary of
our donation grant award.

The UNITED NATIONS and the EUROPEAN UNION authorities has decided to give
this award to 10 beneficiaries from all over the world to help facilitate
and improve the standard of living to the Commission on the Limits of the
Continental Shelf for human 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
European Union with the united nations trust funds for human security.

Your donation grant number is (UNO-154/4456/011)

You are to contact our corresponding office (United Nations Trust
Funds/European Union) in London,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 Claims Department,UNITED NATIONS/EUROPEAN UNION PAYOUT
DEPARTMENT in LONDON,UNITED KINGDOM.

Send your winning identification numbers and fill the verification form
below,to enable them verify your claims.


1.FULL NAMES OF DONATION BENEFICIARY:..................
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:........................
3.AGE:.........................
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.Stanley Downer
Email:unitednationseuropeanunion09@live.com
Tel:009-44-703-596-7371
******************************************************************************

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


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