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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.WILLIAMS PATRICK" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <williamspatrick@mail.mn>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:36:47 -0700
Subject: Immediate Payments Of Your $7,500,000.00 Compensations Funds.

Attention: Sir/Madam,

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United Nations UN and World Bank to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to pay 150,000 scam victims the sum of $7,500,000.00 (SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATE DOLLAR) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $7,500,000.00 compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria this year 2010 first quarter, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the United Nations UN and World Bank Body in conjunction with the New PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN Federal Republic Nigerian Government is now paying 150,000 victims of this operators $7,500,000.00 each in accordance with the United Nations UN and World Bank Body recommendations to the new President commander in Chief PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN as a beginning to his transformation to good governance and good image of this country Nigeria.

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 them for any reason what so ever as the U.S. FBI security service is already on trace of the other criminals. You are thereby advised to contact the payment officer in Nigeria through the following information. Name............. Dr Williams Patrick, Telephone:+23417637574.


You will receive your compensation payments cash through ATM PAYMENTS SYSTEM (or) DIPLOMATIC COURIER SHIPMENT CASH to your home door step. So when we cross examine into our computer diskette analysis data bank we discovered that you have not been paid for this reason your name has been short listed among other contractors and foreigners whose fund has been over due for payment, who will benefit form this deduction payment policy newly introduced as compensations.
We wish to advise you to stop any communication with any body if you wish to receive your payment, since we have decided to bring a solution to give you your cash Right now we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE from European Union and London, which is the latest instruction from the United Nations (UN).

This card center will send you an ATM card, which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is Twenty Thousand United States Dollars ($20,000.00) per day. So if you like to receive your fund in any of this two ways, please let us know and send the following information as listed below for immediate release and transfer of your payment once we receive your full information as requested below:

Full name______________________________

Address_________________________________________________

Phone numbers____Daytime__________________Evening___________________

Nationality___________________

Gender__________________

Age__________

Option of payment ATM PAYMENTS SYSTEM (or) DIPLOMATIC COURIER SHIPMENT CASH to your home address__________________

Copy of your International passport (I. D)___________________


If you can adhere to my instructions and directives this fund will be confirmed to you within the next five (5) working days. We urge your maximum co-operation as we are obliged to serve you better and to restore back lost hope to you, thanks.

You will be detailed with the modalities as you contact us for details.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. Williams Patrick & Mr. Tim J.W. Tookey.
Director (UN) monitoring unit Dept.
Telephone:+23417637574

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