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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: REV CHRIS JOHNSON <rmjusa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:13:59 +0100
Subject: UNITED NATIONS 2009/ 2010 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

UNITED NATIONS 2009/ 2010 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
SCAMMED VICTIM/$500,000 BENEFICIARIES. REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 $500,000 USD.


Attention: FRIEND

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United
Nations To HSBC Bank of London to pay 400 Nigerian 419 scam victims
$500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) each. You are listed and
approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid
this amount, get back to as soon as possible for the immediate
payments of your 500,000 USD compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the
last U.N. meetings held at Washington, USA, it was alarmed so much by
the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose 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 country, the
President of the Country is now paying 284 victims of this operators
$500,000 USD each in accordance with the U.N.recommendations. Due to
the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments
are to be paid by HSBC Bank of London as corresponding paying bank
under funding assistance by The Rabo Bank, London for funds
remittance.

Victims include every foreign contractors that may have not received
their contract sum, people that have had an unfinished transaction or
international businesses that failed due to change in Government
policies,people involved in check, bank draft, credit card and similar
scams and had lost their hard earned funds in the past. We found your
name in our list and this is reason we are contacting you.Our
investigation showed that you truly lost money to scammers in the past
and your name had been approved as one of the beneficiaries.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 222 Beneficiaries has
been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, we still
have more 188 left to be paid the compensations of $500,000 USD each.
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 criminal. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other
victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as
well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

Please note, if you had changed your legal name, send to him your new
name with official proof. Also reconfirm to him your Mailing address
to receive the draft.

Kindly Reverify Your informations again

1. Full Name..........................
1. Full Name..........................
......................
2. Residential Address...................................
3. Age.......................................................
4. Occupation.............................................
5. Direct Telephone Numbers.........................
6. A Copy Of Your Identification.....................



The contact details of Rev Chris Johnson are given below:

Email : rmjusa@gmail.com




You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options
you Choose,DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS, ATM CASH CARD. I shall feed you with
further modalities
as soon as I hear from you.kindly Check the website below to see the
information.

Yours faithfully,
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

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