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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: "Director of operation/incharge of delivery" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <drusmanmicheal952@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:09:06 -0500
Subject: Attention Beneficairy Re_Approval of your fund

Greetings to you Attention Beneficairy

After the just concluded United Nations summit held in Geneva regarding the first quarter payment of 2012, Your funds are among the twenty others that were released and endorsed for immediate delivery to their beneficiaries.

The official approved mode of payment for this exercise is a "First class diplomatic delivery as a result of scrutiny and diplomatic fraud checks and Contract/Inheritance/Gambling/Lottery and other internal loans.

Your payment will be made out from the United Nations diplomatic drop box in West Africa. Failure to respond to this notice within three days of the receipt of this notice will attract a cancellation of this payment till further notice and we are advised to conclude this delivery within seven business days as the United Nations will soon commence with their first yearly diplomatic reconciliation exercise.

You are advised to re-confirm the below details to enable us cross-check with the ones we have in our files.This is for us to be sure we are communicating with the right beneficiary to avoid misdirection of package. .

1.YOUR FULL NAME
2.YOUR SAFEST DELIVERY ADDRESS
3.PHONE AND FAX NUMBER,
4.A COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
5.YOUR OCCUPATION

I will provide all the required details as soon as I confirm your understanding.

The United Nations has advised you to stop all correspondence with whoever that claims to be in possession of your funds

I choose to do this for you because I studied your file and discovered that you have paid a lot of money before abandoning this consignment and I believe you will compensated me well when you receive the consignment.

Note: I know the content of the Box because I could see the amount you are being owned by the Federal Government. This is why I decided to get involved.



You must also know that this arrangement do not concern all the people you were dealing with before today as this consignment/Payment has been surrendered to the Government. Hence the involvement of the United Nations..

Waiting for your urgent response through my private and confidential email address:vaultunitcenter@ymail.com

Yours
Dr Usman Micheal
Director of operation/incharge of delivery
+23432120901

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