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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <centralbankng@chinaren.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:35:22 +0100
Subject: UN TRANSFER#06654

New Page 1

Human Resources Management Service
United Nations Office Geneva
Palais des Nations
Avenue de la Paix 8 - 14
1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland

IN CONJUNCTION WITH
ECO FINANCIAL HOUSE/UNITED NATIONS 2009

COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS REF/PAYMENTS CODE: TRANSFER#06654 $7,500,000, 00.USD
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This is to bring to your notice that, I was delegated from the United Nations ,To pay 100 Scam Victims the sum of $ 7,500,000, 00.USD ( Seven Million ,Five hundred thousand United States dollars } each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims.

On this faithful recommendation, I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at Abuja, it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meeting on the lost of funds by various foreigners to the Scams Artists operating in syndicates all over the world today, in other to retain the good image of the United Nations , the Secretary General in Collaboration with the UNITED NATION is now paying 100 victims the sum of US $7,500,000, 00.USD each.

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 16 left to be paid the compensations amount of $7,500,000, 00.USD each.

You can receive your compensations payments of US$7.5Million via any of the following options you may choose, DRAFT PAYMENTS, WIRE TRANSFERS , ATM CREDIT CARD and Diplomatic HOME CASH DELIVERY.

For you to be attended to on time you are advised to CALL OR SENT ME A FAX MESSAGE immediately you receive this email for further enquiry.

NOTE : Make sure you direct all your response to my private email address: centralbankng@chinaren.com

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Gerard Batten
TEL / FAX: +234 709 043 4092

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