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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: "SCAMMED VICTIM" <scammed.victims@live.com>
Reply-To: mrs.joancole@london.com
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:52:44 +0700 (ICT)
Subject: UNITED NATIONS

SCAMMED VICTIM/ $500,000 BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $500,000 USD.

Greetings to you,

On behalf of the UNITED NATIONS, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of
$500,000 USD in compensation of scam victims.This is to bring to your
notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to
pay 150 victims of scam$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.According to the number of applicants at hand, 114
Beneficiaries has been paid,over a half of the victims are from the United
States, we still have a pending of 36 compensations 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. 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 Contact our approved agent for region with
your filled claims verification form below;

Claims Verification form:

Full Names:
Address:
Nationality:
COUNTRY:
Tel/Fax:
Age/Sex:
Marital Status:
Occupation:


Payment Option
1.Courier Delivery Of Certified Winning Cheque (.....)
2.Transfer Of Compensation Funds Via Online Bank Transfer(.....)

Tick an option which suits you best for the remittance of your
compensation funds to you.
Congratulation from all member of staff of United Nation Organization.

Director Claims Department
Name:Mrs. Joan Cole
Private Email:mrs.joancole@london.com
Telephone:+44-7045-744524

Yours Faithfully,
Dr.William Grants
Coordinator
UNITED NATIONS© 2010

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