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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: "UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT" <INFO@LIVE.CO.UK>
Reply-To: united_nation@live.in
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:07:39 -0600 (CST)
Subject: FUND RELEASE FROM UNITED NATION COMPENSATION UNIT.‏




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UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT,
IN AFFILIATION WITH WORLD BANK.
Permanent Mission of ENGLAND to the United Nations
351 East 52nd Street, United Kingdom
Email:united_nation@live.in

ATTN:Sir/Madam,

How are you today?, Hope all is well with you and your family?,You may not understand why this mail came to you.

We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the then secretary to the United Nations.

This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the United Nations have agreed to
compensate them with the sum of (US$7.5M)(Seven million five hundred thousand dollars),this includes every foreign
contractors that may have not received their contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction or
international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc.

Your name and email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime Commission
observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed. Your name and email
was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team of Economic and Financial Crime Commission observers and this is why
we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to contact Dr. MORRIS MORGAN the director of UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION UNIT as he is our
representative in UK, contact him immediately for your International Bank Draft of (US$7.5M).

You are directed to reconfirm your full detailed information, like your

FULL NAME:................
HOME ADDRESS:.............
OFFICE ADDRESS:...........
OCCUPATION:...............
AGE:......................
HOME PHONE NUMBER.........
CELL PHONE NUMBER:........
ALLOCATION:...............
COUNTRY:..................
YOUR CITY:................
SEX:......................
STATUS:...................

NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming
call, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those
fraudsters that have been frustrating you, I shall stop and cancel your
payment immediately.

Good luck and kind Regards,

United Nation Making the world a better place


Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).
Email:united_nation@live.in
Tell:+448719742540
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.




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