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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: "Rev.Mark Christopher" <rev.fr.markchristopher@factsdesck.uk>
Reply-To: rev.fr.markchristopher@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:34:41 -0300
Subject: Very Urgent Information Respond Immediately.

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

Greetings to you,

I am Rt. Rev. Father Mark Christopher, 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$5Million, 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 Oxford 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
(rev.fr.markchristopher@gmail.com)


Yours faithfully,

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

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