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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: "Mr. Henry Ahmed" <unitedn68@gmail.com>
Reply-To: barr_stevepage@lawyer.com
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 22:31:37 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: YOUR DUE SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION PAYMENTS ADVICE IN YOUR FAVOUR.




Attention

    

This is to bring to your
notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Central Bank to pay 300
scam victims $500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) each. You 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 payments of your
$500,000 USD compensations funds.

 

On this faithful
recommendations, know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja,
Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lose of
funds by various individuals to the Nigerian scams artists operating in
syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N
Body in conjunction with the Nigerian Government is now paying 300 victims of
these operators $500,000 USD each in accordance with the U.N.. recommendations.
Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the
payments are to be supervised by the United Nations' Officials and the Central
Bank Nigeria, as the corresponding paying bank is Oceanic Bank International
Plc.

 

According to the number of
applicants at hand, 150 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are
from the United States,
and we still have more 150 left to be paid the compensations of $500,000 USD
each. 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 message to him for any reason what so ever as the
U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it
secret till they are all apprehended. 
Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application
as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

 

The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) (Motto: No Body is Above the Law) have combined effort
with the United Nation Anti-crime commission to alleviate and redeem the image
and past wounds of foreigners and firms who were defrauded, scammed and
abandoned by this syndicates to slight down our dignities to international
communities. Many banks have been in bankruptcy today, Universal firms,
Companies and individuals due to the activity of these hoodlums. However,
investigations have shown that these people have dropped over 500,000 victims
after collecting their money false fully, many committed suicide and others
living by the grace of God.

With the sanity presently
at hand, we have over 500 convicts at hand, 300 in kirikri prisons while many
are still awaiting trail while We still fetch for others who feel they are wise
and hope that you will be our friend by giving us more information as per clue
in apprehending them.

 

You can receive your
compensations payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE
PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS/ATM CARD. I shall feed you with further modalities
as soon as I hear from you.  Send a copy
of your response to the officer in charge of your payment:-

 

Kindly contact Barrister
Anthony Smith for further directives:

Email: barr_stevepage@lawyer.com

 

Regards

 

Mr. Henry Ahmed

Executive Secretary

Foreign Remittance Dept

Federal Ministry of Finance

 

 

 


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