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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: "African Developement Bank" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <haystimothy48@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:06:58 +0400
Subject: Hello

UNITED NATION FACT FINDING AND APPROVAL OF FOREIGN DEBT PAYMENT
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME) DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT ANDTRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-ANEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027
ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

Foreign debt reconciliation.

we have actually been authorized by the british government, presidency of the federal republic of nigeria with the governing board of Central bank of nigeria (Paying Bank is African Development Bank)to handle this payment, the british government with the help of world bank and international monatery fund after due conclusion held at the G20 meeting had investigated the unnecessary delay of your award, inheritance/contract payment and to also recommend and approve your claims for payment if certified and genuine.

your name amongst others were forwarded to my office for verification of your surname in accordance with the beneficiary record. during the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the bank, who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts. as i found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment, a lot of people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people everyday.

i found out that you almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your payment. please be equally advised that no security company in the world can handle your contract payment/inheritance fund with any bank without the instructions of the african development bank.

your problem is that of interest group in the central bank of nigeria that is supposed to transfer your fund with the approval of the adb(African Development Bank). a lot of people are interested in your payment and that explains why you receive emails and phone calls from different people everyday.

their whole game plan is to frustrate you in order for you to abandon the contract payment and then, they will be comfortable and free enough to transfer the contract funds into their overseas account.

their aim and target is not the money you are giving them but to frustrate you. hence, you have lost trust on whom to believe to be genuine.

i can assure you that this may last for years, yet nothing happens. to sum it up, i wish to assure you that with my position here in the telex department, i can punch the computer and credit your account straight., your outstanding contract fund is ten million united states dollars ($us10.m).
the only payment you are make to them is $225 which covers the cost of transfer charge and insurance which is being billed to the recipient in my office.

you are advised to furnish them with this below information:

(1) your full name:
(2) address:
(3)personal cell phone /fax and mobile:
(4) company name
(5) occupation/position:
(6) age and marital status:

you are to send this details to:

name: mr. hays timothy
email: haystimothy48@yahoo.cn

we expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively.

congratulations!

Mrs BETTY WRIGHT
SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT
TO:MR. BAN KI-MOON,
SECRETARY.
UNITED NATIONS,NEW YORK

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