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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: "Carol Hudson" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <deptcompensation.un@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:12:24 +0100
Subject: Re: Compensation from UN.

RE:THE UNITED NATIONS AIDS AND AWARENESS SCHEME.
SCAMMED VICTIMS PAYMENT COMPENSATION OF 500,000GBP
VICTIMS PAYMENT REF: CODE: 06654
UNITED KINGDOM


Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to bring to your notice that I Mrs Carol Hudson, from the United Nations Aids Awareness, I was posted to United Kingdom(London),as head of the departmental director scam victim payment compensation (SVPC) to pay 15 scam victims £500,000.00 (Five Hundreded Thousand Great Britain Pounds ONLY) each for the first quarter of the year.

Your email address are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your £500,000.00 compensations funds.

On these faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at London, UK.The New Elected PM of Cameron, instructed Sir. Mervyn King , Governor of Bank of England that it alarmed so much by the world in the U.N. meeting on the loss of funds by various individuals operating from the mentions banks below or the others.
Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC Bank London, Barclays Bank London, Central Bank Of Belgium, Bank of London, Inter Continental Bank, Diamond Bank Of Africa, Natwest Bank Uk, Bank of America, Central Bank Of West Africa, and other Bank of Africa respectively.Your email address appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a payment of Five Hundreded Thousand Great Britain Pounds ONLY

In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the England Government, is now paying 15 victims of this £500,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations in this Second quarter of this year 2012.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems, the payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials Register to Bank of England as the corresponding payee authorized bank is: Barblays Bank, contact person and his email services will be given to you as soon as you respond to this message or through our over sea register payee bank, if you will not be able to come down here by your self and sign your fund.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 5 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United States, and we still have more numbers left to be paid the compensations of £500,000.00. Your email particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of the victims operating with one of the mention bank, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to any person whatsoever as the U.S. secret monitoring service is already on trace of the other criminals, till we apprehend them.

We are trying our best to contact other victims who have not receive this information or application as well for verify and possible consideration. You can receive your compensation payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS/WIRE TRANSFERS or THROUGH DIPLOMATIC MEANS.

I will feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Yours Faithfully,
Mrs.Carol Hudson
Director , (U.N) SVPC.
Cc: Barrister, W.J.Jones
Scam Victim Payment Compensation Management Office Legal Departmental consultant Barblay's Bank PLC.

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