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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.Robert Otika" <robertotika02@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: drrobertotika@one.co.il
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:40:30 +0530 (IST)
Subject: UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT


























 
UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT,
IN AFFILIATION
WITH WORLD BANK.
Permanent Mission of ENGLAND to the United Nations
351
East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022

Our Ref:
UN/TH/066147/2011

Attention Beneficiary,

How are you today? Hope
all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to
you. We have been having a meeting for the past 3 months which ended yesterday
with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to all the people that
have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS has agreed to
compensate them with the sum of US$750.000.00 each and you have to indicate how
much you lost in the hands of scammers.

This includes every foreign
contractors, Inheritance,Dating and Lottery payment that have not received their
Lottery/Inheritance payment, and people that have had an unfinished transaction
or international Lottery payment that failed due to Government problems etc. We
found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have
been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to contact Dr
Robert Otika who is in charge of your payment through our paying center in
Africa and Europe , contact him immediately for more information on how to get
your compensation of US$750.000.00 payment from the United
Nations.


Therefore, you should send him your full Name,telephone
number and your correct home address, Contact Dr Robert Otika immediately for
your compensation payments.

Person to Contact:Dr Robert Otika
Email:
(drrobertotika@one.co.ilHYPERLINK
"http://fr.mc239.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=drrobertotika@live.fr"
)

Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as
soon as you receive your compensation funds don’t neglect this I advice
you.

United Nations, Making the world a better
place.

Regards,
Ban
Ki-Moon
Secretary-General

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