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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: "Mark Wool" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mwool52@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:40:20 +0800
Subject: United Nations Compensation Committee

United Nations Compensation Committee

Attention: The Beneficiary,

Scammed Victim/ $10million Compensation-Ref/Payments Code: 06654 we are Delegated from the United Nations to 100 /World 419 scam victims $10million 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 $10million Compensations funds.

On these faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last United Nations meetings held at New York NY with Barrack Obama 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.

This operators $10million each, Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking Systems in some part of the world today, they are to be paid by Pacific Finance Company Plc under funding assistance by CIMB bank of Malaysia 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 $10million each only.

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 to any body for any reason whatsoever, till your compensation fund gets to you successfully to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.

Kindly provide this details bellow here and send it back to the Chief Compensation Officer via email .

FULL NAME:..............
ADDRESS:...............
AGE:...................
SEX:....................
NATIONALITY:............
HOME TELEPHONE #:........
MOBILE TELEPHONE #:......
E-MAIL ADDRESS:..........
MARITAL STATUS:..........
OCCUPATION:..............
PROVINCE STATE:..........
POST CODE:...............
COPY OF INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR NATIONAL ID CARD...............

You will receive your compensations payments via a bank draft or ATM Card Or WIRE TRANSFERS only so kindly choose payment option.


Yours faithfully,
Mr. Mark wool
Chief Compensation Officer .

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