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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: "Barry Wilson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <directoroffinance@admin.in.th>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:19:39 +0100
Subject: PAYMENT CERTIFIED AND APPROVED TO YOU RECENTLY.

>From The Desk of: Barry Wilson.
Office of the Director of Finance
(Funds Clearance Authority & Certification Dept.)
TRANS-FINANCE MONITORING AND INTELLIGENCE COMMISSION.


With due Respect,

We incollaboration with the United Nations Funds Clearance Authority (UNFCA), hereby write to inform you that the report from our intensive Financial Monitoring network recently indicates that a certain huge amount of funds has been scheduled to be release to you but currently floating in the International Banking Community/Computerized Financial Database and everything is officially set towards ensuring the perfect remittance of your Approved payment. Our utmost priority is to ensure maximum security of your Funds' Remittance and also to protect the movement of the Fund perfecting its movement successfully into your own Nominated Bank Account or possession.

Under the stipulated Law of our Government and other member countries of the United Nations on report at the G8 SUMMIT, any huge amount of money that has been found in the international computer data system waiting to be transferred without claims for a period of 6 months or less, shall be confiscated and forfeited to the United Nations account.

We do hereby ask you to contact this office immediately for ratification by forwarding to us all your current information including your direct telephone numbers and full postal address where your payment release documents will be send to you in order for us to confirm your personal receipt of this fund or consider your fund confiscated. Be informed that as soon as we receive your current data then we will formally endorse your payment release documents on your name legally and immediately instruct our authorized Paying Bank to release your funds by forwarding your file to them for immediate payment consideration and subsequent funds transfer into your account. This email and its attachments are confidential for mutual security reason.

You are advised to contact us by filling this Payment Processing Form with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:

FIRST NAME:-------------------------------------------------------------
LAST NAME:--------------------------------------------------------------
GENDER:-----------------------------------------------------------------
AGE:--------------------------------------------------------------------
OCCUPATION:-------------------------------------------------------------
FULL ADDRESS:-----------------------------------------------------------
NATIONALITY: -----------------------------------------------------------
MOBILE #:---------------------------------------------------------------
DIRECT TELEPHONE #:-----------------------------------------------------
ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS IF ANY:---------------------------------------

I ......................................................hereby declare that the above DATA are true, and in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

We will appreciate your urgent co-operation by forwarding all your current details through this Email: directoroffinance@admin.in.th

CONGRATULATIONS,

Kind Regards,

Mr. Barry Wilson.
Director of Finance
Trans-Finance Monitoring & Intelligence Commission.

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