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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: UN ASIA <unasia@yahoo.cn>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 07:23:42 +0800 (CST)
Subject: re:get back immediately for your payment.


ATTENTION SIR/MADAM,

UNITED NATION SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United Nation & World Bank Group  to pay 250 scam victims the sum of US$2,000,000.00 (TWO MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victim to be paid this amount, get back to us immediately for the immediate payment of your US$2,000,000.00 compensation fund.On this faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the last U.N. meeting held in New York. It was alarmed so much by the world in the meeting on the lost of funds by various individuals to the African scam artist operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the U.N Body in conjunction with the World Bank is now paying 250 victims of these operations US$2,000,000.00 each in accordance with the U.N. recommendations.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in African, the Payments are to be supervised by the United Nations/World Bank Officials, as the corresponding paying bank shall be in USA and UK,According to the number of applicants at hand, Over 179 Beneficiaries has been paid, half of the victims are from the United State of America, we still have more left to be paid the compensations of US$2,000,000.00 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/FBI 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 investigation and possible,and if you have already been notified of this payment program previously, do proceed with your claim
as required.

As directed by the Global Settlement Committee, You can receive your compensations payments via any of this payment Options you may Choose:(1)VIA U.N. DIPLOMATIC PAYMENT AGENT,(2) VIA WIRE TRANSFER,(3) VIA ONLINE TRANSFER, We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we hear from you.


Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Comfort J.Zoccali
UNITED NATION PACIFIC ASIA REGION

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