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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" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <agent_jamespotter@postino.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:40:33 +0100
Subject: BARCLAYS BANK/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

ATTENTION SIR/MADAM,

BARCLAYS BANK/UNITED NATIONS SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations Office
to Barclays Bank to pay 150 scam victims $100,000.00(ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this
amount.Get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000.00 USD
compensations funds. On this faithful recommendations,we want you to know that during the last
U.N. meetings held in London,United kingdom it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings
on the loss of funds by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over
the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the United
Kingdom Government is now paying 150 victims of this operators $100,000.00 each in accordance
with the U.N.recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems, the payments are to be supervised by the United
Nations Officials and the Barclays Bank as the correspondent paying Bank.According to the number of
applicants at hand, 96 Beneficiaries has been paid,half of the victims are from the Asia and America,
we still have more 54 left to be paid the compensations of $100,000.00 each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested and we made use of your
lastname for database extraction to get in touch with you.Therefore it's either you in particular is
the victim or a family member of yours.This makes you qualified for this compensation fund from the
United Nations.You are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to anyone for
any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals.
Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and
possible consideration. You are thereby advised to contact the private client office of the
Barclays Bank in London through the following information.

Name: James Potter
E-mail: agent_jamespotter@postino.net

You will receive your compensations payments through ATM PAYMENTS SYSTEM which is a new reliable
system of pay-out by the UNITED NATION.You will be detailed with the modalities as you contact the
private client office of the Barclays Bank.
Yours faithfully,
James Potter.


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