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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 COMPENSATION TEAM" <unitednations@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <santoswalter398@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:14:37 -0500
Subject: UNITED NATIONS GOOD NEWS!!!

Attn: Sir/Madam,

Note! After series of meeting that lasted for three (3) days with the secretary General to the UNITED NATIONS General Ban Ki-Moon. You fall on the names submitted to receive United Nations Compensation. This goes 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 $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) 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 Monetary and Financial System observers (MFSO) and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed. You are hereby advised to contact Mr. Santos Walter of KOLNER BANK PLC, as he is our representative in London, contact him immediately for your ATM CARD of $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars). This fund are in a ATM CARD for security purpose, he will send it to you and you can withdraw it in any ATM MACHINE of your choice. Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you want him to send the ATM CARD to.

Person to Contact Mr. Santos Walter
Email: santoswalter398@gmail.com

Making the world a better place.

Good luck and kind regards,

Mr. Kofi Anan
Former Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).

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