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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 INITIATIVES" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <eddy.fredman@mail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:57:13 +0100
Subject: UNITED NATIONS FRUAD RELIEF

Dear Friend,

It has come to our notice that you have been defrauded of your hard earned money by fraudsters from Nigeria claiming one thing or the other, during the last U.N meeting held in Washington DC USA, it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world on the loss of fund by various foreigners to scam artists operating all over the world today.

With the supprt of the United Nations we have decided to redeem the good image of Africa Countries, an immediate payment of $1,000,000.00USD(One Million United States Dollars) has been ordered for each of the affect victims this is accordance to the UN recommendations, this payments will be made by CITI BANK PLC UK as the authorized and corresponding paying bank under the funding assistance of World Bank.

Your information were among those mentioned by some of the syndicate that was apprehended in Lagos, Nigeria and London as one of those that have lost a lot of money to their operations you are hereby advised and warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to anybody for any reason whatsoever as the U.S secret service in conjunction with The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) are working day and night to track this criminals down, this has to be kept confidential until these criminals are all apprehended.

It is very sad to know that many as a result of been defrauded have committed suicide and many now living in abject poverty as their life saving has been falsefully taken from them by this wicked fraudsters. about 310 suspect are at hand now,178 in prison, while many are been arranged for trial in different countries and we are still tracking others that think they are smart. we believe that you will assist by giving any vital information that could lead to the apprehension of these fraudsters. You can receive your reimbursement via any of these options you choose(CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT OR WIRE TRANSFER).We shall be waiting to hear from you been certain that you response will be that you are satisfied and willing to claim your $1,000,000.00USD(One Million United States Dollars)reimbursement fund.

Regards
Eddy Fredman
for United Nations Annex Office London

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