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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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Fraud email example:

From: "RE: UNITED NATIONS PAYMENT OFFICE LONDON, ENGLAND." <randolfwilliams16@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rt.rev.ericmark0@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:21:21 +0700 (WIT)
Subject: RE: UNITED NATIONS PAYMENT OFFICE LONDON, ENGLAND.




UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL
DUTIES OFFICE LONDON UNITED KINGDOM.

Greetings to you,


I am Rev. Father Eric Mark, a senior staff with the World Bank fact
finding & special duties office. I am writing you this letter because cool
penny is better than million of dollars. It is better for one to live and
die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one. The Chief security officer
(CSO) of this organization and I have arranged with an officer in computer
section, engineer Peter Cliff has agreed to bring out part of your total
sum amounting to US$5.5 Million, why we did this is because according to
information gathered from the banks/security computer, you have been
waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. As I found
out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of
your fund settlement. Your problem is that of interest groups. A lot of
people are interested in your payment and those people are merely doing
papers works with you and that is why you receive messages from different
people every day. Also we found out that some of the officials of the
parasitals have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of
helping you to receive your money. I can assure you that this may last for
years yet nothing happens, if you do not do away with those officers you
call your partners, and for security reasons. Do not tell anybody that you
have your money until you receive cash at your doorstep.


The money is in two security proof boxes weighing 110kg each, which is
220kg for the two boxes. We went to four courier companies to make
arrangements on how to ship them by courier to you, we went to DHL, FEDEX,
IAS, UPS, and all said that they must open the boxes for inspection by the
customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because the
boxes were padded with synthetic nylon and to open them you have to cut
the pad before you will meet the buttons that you will press to open the
dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the boxes and be able to
close them again because they were padded with machine. We told the
courier services that the boxes contained film materials and when open
will spoil the materials. We did not declare money because couriers do not
carry money. Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to me that
there is courier service they use to send diplomatic material and
information from one country to another. It has diplomatic immunity and
cannot check by any customs any where in the World. The name of the
courier service is Global Security Service (GSS) I will meet them as soon
as I have your go ahead order. The Diplomat will help me to get immunity
papers, so we do not have any problem. We have concluded that you must
compensate us with five hundred thousand United States Dollars
(US$500.000.00)as soon as you receive your money to this effect, you will
send to us a promissory note for five hundred thousand united States
Dollars (US$500.000.00) along with your identification and address for
sending the boxes by courier, Please maintain top most secrecy as it may
cause a lot of problem if found out that we are using this way to help
you. Do not ever tell anybody about this until you have your money.

I want to help you because something in me is telling me that you are an
honest person when we concluded this and you send our promise. We will
help to ship the final part of your money to you. Be blessed as we wait
for your urgent reply. For security reason please reply to (
rt.rev.ericmark0@gmail.com )

Yours faithfully,

Rt. Rev. Father Eric Mark
Chairman, Fact-Finding & Special Duties Office


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