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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: <unitednnn@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:32:38 -0800
Subject: From The Desk of Mr. Ban Ki Moon....Re: ASAP.

How are you today?



Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this mail came to you. In regards to the recent

meeting between the United Nations and the Present United States Government to restore the dignity and Economy

of the Nations. Base on the Agreement with the World Bank Assistance to help and make the world a better place

for all with the sole aim of abolishing poverty.


We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago 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

have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$ 6,500,000.00 (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United States

Dollars Only) This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people

that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.


Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime Commission

observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.


You are advised to contact Ms. Christina Wong of Bank of East Asia (New York), as is our representative bank in

United State, contact her immediately for your Cheque/ International Bank Draft of US$ 6,500,000.00 (Six Million

Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) This funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose ok. So the

bank will release the fund to you as soon as you contact them with your information’s


Therefore, you should send them your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address:


Person to Contact: Ms. Christina Wong
Email: beany71@hotmail.com
Fax: (718) 492-4201


Good luck and kind regards,
Making the world a better place
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon Secretary
(UNITED NATIONS)
Email: unation2011@hotmail.com
http://www.un.org/sg/

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