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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: "MR. BANKI MOON" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <revmarkbless1@ymail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:23:15 -0800
Subject: WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME

 
WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017 , USA
YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.
Greetings,
We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt
 
Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the
 
course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials
 
of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.
 
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who
 
has being Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you $2,500,000 USD (Two Million Five Hundred
 
Thousand United State Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid
 
this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $2,500,000 USD compensation funds.
 
We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED
 
NATIONS.
This email is to 50 selected people that have been scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment execution
 
in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $2.5 MILLON USD This includes
 
every foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished
 
transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in
 
our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the United Nations Board of
 
Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.
 
We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to us; However, in the course of our routine
 
securitization into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and very much available, note
 
that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD in the favor of your name and hand it over to REV. MARK BLESS
 
Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill it, you have to contact REV. MARK BLESS in charge of your ATM CARD, as he is
 
our UNITED NATIONS representative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact him immediately for your ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF
 
$2.5.MILLION USD, This funds are in a ATM CARD for security purpose. He will send it to you and you can clear it in any ATM
 
Machine of your choice.
Contact information: REV.MARK BLESS
Chief Protocol Officer,Dispatch Unit.
Email:(revmarkbless1@ymail.com)
Phone: +23480-341-0810
 
As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your present address as below to the contact in other
 
for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.
FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly you shall be
 
requested to pay the sum of $165 by REV. MARK BLESS as the Delivery fee of your ATM CARD. Once you contact the Office, please
 
request delivery option from him in other to avoid further delay.
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
http://www.un.org/sg

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