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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: "Compensation Award" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <compersation6@w.cn>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:07:03 -0700
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIMS PAYMENT COMPENSATION

RE: THE UNITED NATIONS AIDS AND AWARENESS SCHEME.
SCAMMED VICTIMS PAYMENT COMPENSATION OF $250,000
VICTIMS PAYMENT REF: CODE: 06654
Attn: Beneficiary,
This is to bring to your notice that I Mrs. Caroline Duke, from the United Nations AIDs Awareness. I am assigned to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as head of the Departmental Director Scam Victim Payment Compensation (SVPC) to pay 50 scam victims $250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) only each for the second quarter of the year.
Your email address 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 payment of your $250,000.00 compensations funds.
On these faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria. The New Elected President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR) instructed Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that it alarmed so much by the World in the U.N. meeting on the loss of funds by various individuals operating from the mentions banks below or the others.
Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Bank London, Barclays Bank London, Central Bank Of Belgium, Bank of London, Inter Continental Bank, Diamond Bank Of Africa, Natwest Bank UK, UBA, Bank of America, Central Bank of West Africa, and other Banks of Africa respectively. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the Nigerian Government, is now paying 20 victims of this $250,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations in this Second quarter of this year 2011.
This payment is currently being supervised by the United Nations Officials Registered to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) or Apex Bank as the corresponding payee authorized bank is: Zenith Bank Plc, contact person and his email services will be given to you as soon as you respond to this message or through our intermediate registered payee bank, if you will not be able to come down here by your self and sign your fund.
Your email particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested as one of the victims operating with one of the mention bank, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to any person whatsoever as the U.S. Secret Monitoring Service is already on trace of the other criminals.
You are required to send the information listed below so that we can cross check with the information we have here in our office file for accuracy to avoid duplication of information.
YOUR FULL NAME:
ADDRESS & COUNTRY:
AGE:
SEX:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
You can receive your compensation payments via any of these options. BANK DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS, WIRE TRANSFER and DIPLOMATIC means. Further feedback modalities will be sending to you as soon as confirmation of this message is acknowledged from you.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Caroline Duke
Director United Nations SVPC.
Tel: +2348024942948 Fax: +234015559292
cc: Barrister, W.J.Jones
Scam Victim Payment Compensation Management
Legal Consultants Central Bank of Nigeria.
 
 

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