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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: "DR. BAN KI - MOON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <federalreservef@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:41:32 -0700
Subject: COMPENSATION PAYMENT


COMPENSATION PAYMENT.

UNITED NATIONS (UN) / FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI): SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

ATTN: BENEFICIARY.

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $10 .5 MILLION DOLLARS

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS in conjunctions with the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (F.B.I) MR. ROBERT S. MUELLER, III FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to pay 150 victims of scam $10 .5 MILLION DOLLARS (TEN MILLION FIVE HOUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS Only each).


Your email was fund among the list of scam victims, and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your$10 .5 MILLION DOLLARS compensations funds.


On these faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N.
meetings held here in New York, it was alarming on the money lost by various
Individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.
In other to compensate victims, the UNITED NATIONS Body is now paying 15 victims $10 .5 MILLION DOLLARS each in accordance with the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in the world today.


The payments are to not be paid by wire transfer, but by method of ATM CARD,
loaded in TWO BATCHES into an ATM card, and it will be send to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of us$50,000. Per day from any ATM machine
worldwide, BUT from the financial houses there is no limit.


As correspondence paying bank under funding assistance by Intercontinental Bank Plc. Benefactor of this compensation award will have to be first cleared and recommended for payment by Intercontinental Bank Plc. 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 an outstanding of 36 scam victims left to be paid.Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration. So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your following information’s to the paying bank.


1. Full name:............................................................................................
2.Your Current address:.............................................................................
3. Phone.........................Mobile:......................and fax:.............................
4. Your Age:..................................Your Sex:.............................................
4. Your current occupation:........................................................................


Below are the contacts details of the PAYING BANK (FDERAL RESERVE BANK NEW YORK) in the UNITED STATE OF AMERICA, to whom you will send your information for the processing of the ATM card as soon as possible.


Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke
EMAIL: federalreservef@aol.com

You are advice to contact the above email urgently before it will be too late.
Looking forward to hear from you.

Yours Faithfully,
DR. BAN KI - MOON
UN SECURTARY GENERAL




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