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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: "unitednationspaymentboard@yahoo.com.ph" (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:33:33 -0400
Subject: APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS

OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS PAYMENT BOARD
ABUJA NIGERIA


RE: APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS.


I am Mr. David Austin 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. Karl H Simmroth 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. Karl H Simmroth of 1740 N 395 W Angola IN 46703 USA 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?


Fifth Third Bank
100 Growth Pkwy Angola 46703
Routing No: 074908594
Swift Code: FTBCUS3C
A/C NO: 7653166913
Beneficiary: Karl H Simmroth


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$50 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. Karl H Simmroths 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 above 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. Karl

H Simmroths 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 phone number.+234-1-75933457 or austinmr.davids@yahoo.com.ph@yahoo.com.ph


Thank you.

Yours truly,


Mr. Davids Austin
Director of United Nations Payment board


NOTE: For your kind indication in case you call on phone and could not get through as a result of network failure disorder, please

feel free to send us an email, whit this alternative email address unitednationafricaoffice@gmail.com, we shall not hesitate to

respond to you with immediate effect.unitednationafricaoffice@gmail.com

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