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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: "MR.DAVID EVANS UNPB" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <davevans011@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:57:00 -0800
Subject: RE: APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS.

OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS PAYMENT BOARD
ABUJA NIGERIA

Attention: Beneficiary,

RE: APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS.

I am Mr. David Evans and Director of United Nations Payment board in Nigeria. I hope my medium of contact to you, which has been greatly abused due to scams; frauds and other Internet related crimes would not in any way contravene your ethics of better judgment.
Following the directives and instructions received from the Office of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, as a result of petitions and counter petitions by foreign contractors and fund inheritors over non-payment of their claims (funds), this office has been mandated to look into all overdue payments yet to be released for vetting and immediate payment.

Your name is among the list of beneficiaries short-listed for immediate payment. Be informed that there are several bank accounts submitted for your payment by your partner MR.ORTIZ ANDRES to me for payment which one of them is stated below for your verification We do not know into which account to affect your payment. Please, you are hereby required to clarify the following immediately: -


1. Did you broker your debt to one Mr. ORTIZ ANDRES of PROFESSOR DR LADSON SC 29456320 to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?
2. Did you sign any “Deed of Assignment” in his favor, thereby making him the current beneficiary with the following account details?

Bank name: Bank of America
Routing number: 063100277
Swift Code: BOFAUS3N
account number: 229038929031
Name on account: ORTIZ ANDRES
State: SC
Zip code: 29456320

This development is coming now that the United Nations Payment board wants to offset all outstanding payments to all legal foreign beneficiaries around the world in which your payment file was affected. As you may know, this Financial Institution have approved amount of USD$10.5 Million Dollars in your favor. This has been the main reason behind why you have not been to get paid all this while and your representatives or people handling this transaction for you before did not want to reveal this fact to you because they will not want you to know or be aware of their in capabilities in remittance matters of this magnitude that is the reason why they keep repeatedly asking you for more money after paying initial payment.

We need to confirm from you if it's really true that you are aware of this recent development and sudden change as if we do not hear from you, this automatically means that you are aware as informed by Mr. ORTIZ ANDRES claim, and we will not be making any mistake in remitting your outstanding payment to him or a wrong person.
You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the legitimacy of the above claim, as we are very apprehensive of his claim and kindly give us reason why you decided to affect the above Change of Account. If you are not aware of this claim, please confirm to us through the below stated telephone, and e-mail address immediately by stating your authentic Account details, Contract Number for proper credit of your funds as we have here in your file.

Due to the long delay this payment has suffered, be rest assured that immediately these payment irregularities are cleared, you would receive your fund remittance analysis for clearance of funds into your account. Note that we are bound to recognize Mr. ORTIZ ANDRES claim, if you fail to promptly response to this inquiry following the Deed of Assignment he submitted to claim this payment. Make sure you get back to this office as soon as possible so that the necessary action will be taking immediately.

I can be reached for further advice and directives on my private email davevans011@yahoo.co.jp and phone private number 234-8127709682.


Thank you.
Yours truly,
Mr. Davids Evans
Director of United Nations Payment Normalization board


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