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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: unin unin <unofindy@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:43:32 +0800
Subject: United Nations Compensation Committee

United Nations Compensation Committee

Attention: The Beneficiary,

Scammed Victim/ $5million Compensation-Ref/Payments Code: 06654. We are
delegated from the United Nations to Bank of American to pay 100 scam
victims $5million each, you are listed and approved for this payment as one
of the scammed victims, get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate
payments of your $5million compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last
United Nations meetings held at New York NY with Barack Obama New Elected
United States Of American President, it was alarmed so much by the rest of
the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the
scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today, in other to
retain the good image of the country, the president of the Country is now
paying 100 victims of this operators $5million each, Due to the corrupt and
inefficient banking systems in world, the payments are to be paid by Pacific
Finance Company under funding assistance by the world bank, According to
the number of applicants at hand, 80 beneficiaries has been paid, half of
the victims are from the United States and Asia, we still have more 20 left
to be paid the compensations of $5million each only.

For more vital information, please visit
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm<https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2FNews%2FPress%2Fdocs%2F2003%2Fik344.doc.htm>

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 for any reason for whatsoever, the
US/FBI secret service is already on trace of the criminal. For more vital
information,

You will receive your compensations payments via a bank draft or ATM Card or
WIRE TRANSFERS only; I shall feed you with further information, once I hear
from you. please reply to unofindy@gmail.com for urgent attention.

Yours faithfully,

Rev. Father Austine frank.

De-facto Chief Compensation Officer
United Nations Compensation Committee
United Nations Anti-fraud Committee
United Nations Secretary-General.

Mr. Ban Ki-moon.

http://www.un.org/sg<https://service.mail.com/dereferrer/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fsg>

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