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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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Fraud email example:

From: "cb.un-org-office cb.un-org-office" <cb.un-org-office@att.net>
Reply-To: cbunsvcp@representative.com
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:38:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: CENTRAL BANK/UNITED NATIONS VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENT'S .

Attention: Beneficiary.

CENTRAL BANK/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENT.

This is to bring to your notice that i am delegated from the United Nations To all Central Banks in Africa to pay 150 scam victims $750,000.00 (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)each.You are enlisted and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount.

You should get back to Honorable Johnson Dean,as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $750,000.00 compensation fund.On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last U.N. meeting held at the United Nation Head Quarter in New York in the United States of America it was alarming on the rate people have lost their hard earned money in the hands of fraudsters and scammers that are operating in syndicates all over the world today.

In other to compensate victims,the U.N Body in conjunction with the Economic community of West African states (ECOWAS) is now paying 150 victims the sum of (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) $750,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Africa, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Official, Dr.William Coenen. According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States. We still have more 36 left to be paid.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations. You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You are hereby advised to contact the private client officer in charge through the following information. Name:(Honorable Johnson Dean) E-mail (cbunsvcp@representative.com ) you will receive your compensation payment through,CASH DELIVERY SERVICES or through Automated Teller Machine (ATM PAYMENT SYSTEM) only.This is for your information and you will be detailed with further modalities as you contact "Honorable Johnson Dean .

Yours Faithfully,
Dr.William Coenen.
International Scammed Victims Compensation Co-coordinator.Copyright © 2010 !!

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